This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Art Humanities > Philosophy > Class 12 Philosophy Chapter 3 Metaphysics – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Philosophy Chapter 3 Metaphysics Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Piscine Molitor Patel is named after A) A famous Indian government official. B) A close family member. C) A swimming pool. D) A scientific instrument. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A swimming pool. 2. What is the paradox that questions the coherence of the concept of God? A) The paradox of the stone. B) The paradox of the island. C) The paradox of the river. D) The paradox of the tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The paradox of the stone. 3. What must eternal truth do make itself known? A) Be written down. B) Appear in the present. C) Appear in the past. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appear in the present. 4. What are the "worst pair of opposites" for someone stranded at sea? A) Fear and love. B) Animal and human. C) Hunger and thirst. D) Boredom and terror. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Boredom and terror. 5. William James support of truth is what works by experience A) Logical positivism. B) Pragmatism. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pragmatism. 6. According to the narrator, animals in the wild are neither free in ..... or ..... A) Free in space or in time. B) Free in the mind or in cage. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free in space or in time. 7. What is the literal meaning of "metaphysics" ? A) After physics. B) Beyond physics. C) Inside physics. D) Without physics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beyond physics. 8. What was Bertrand Russell's belief about the universe? A) The universe is a chaotic and random place without any order. B) The universe is solely a product of divine intervention and cannot be understood. C) The universe operates independently of any logical or scientific principles. D) The universe doesn't need a reason to exist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The universe doesn't need a reason to exist. 9. What lesson does Pi's father teach him and Ravi by feeding a goat to a tiger? A) He teaches them about how animals hunt in the wild. B) He teaches them the difference between predators and their prey. C) He teaches them how to offer food to a wild animal. in case they have to help out with the chores. D) He teaches them that wild animals are not to be treated the same way as domestic animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He teaches them that wild animals are not to be treated the same way as domestic animals. 10. The Allegory of the Cave, like most of Plato's writing, is a ..... A) Essay. B) Play. C) Movie. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dialogue. 11. God uses worldviews to help us relate to others and help us relate to Him. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. Which type of materialism explains reality via particles and mechanical laws? A) Dialectical idealism. B) Nominal materialism. C) Historical materialism. D) Mechanistic materialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mechanistic materialism. 13. Where were the two men from who were dispatched to the town where Pi recovered in an effort to interviewhim? A) Canada. B) Mexico. C) Japan. D) United States. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Japan. 14. In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, prisoners see only shadows and believe them to be reality. This links to metaphysics because it asks: A) Whether knowledge can be measured. B) How people learn new skills. C) Whether our perceptions reveal or hide the true nature of reality. D) How societies should be governed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Whether our perceptions reveal or hide the true nature of reality. 15. On the first day, which animals did Pi believe were on the lifeboat? A) Hyena, zebra, orangutan. B) Zebra, orangutan, dog, hyena. C) Two hyenas, dog, zebra. D) Tiger, hyena, dog, guinea pig. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyena, zebra, orangutan. 16. A materialist trusts that only the material world is real A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. What does ontological dualism assert? A) Only material reality exists. B) Material and immaterial realities both exist. C) Only spiritual reality exists. D) Reality is unknowable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Material and immaterial realities both exist. 18. What did Avicenna believe about the self? A) Avicenna claimed the self is an illusion created by sensory experiences. B) Avicenna thought the self is a collective consciousness shared by all beings. C) Avicenna believed the self must exist and must be separate from the body. D) Avicenna believed the self is purely physical and cannot exist without the body. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Avicenna believed the self must exist and must be separate from the body. 19. What did the interviewers want to know first? A) What food Pi had eaten to survive for the past few months. B) Where Pi had learned his survival techniques from. C) Who the tiger was and where Pi had been the past months. D) How the ship sank and what happened to the ship's cargo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) How the ship sank and what happened to the ship's cargo. 20. According to Kant and later positivists, why does metaphysics face a problem? A) It contradicts political theory. B) It requires advanced mathematics. C) Metaphysical objects cannot be accessed by the senses, hindering progress. D) It lacks a clear object of study. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphysical objects cannot be accessed by the senses, hindering progress. 21. Which attribute of God is challenged by the concept of free will? A) Omniscience. B) Omnipotence. C) Omnibenevolence. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Omniscience. 22. Spirituality and religion are the same things. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 23. Libertarian free will (in philosophy) means: A) Everything is determined. B) Freedom depends on laws. C) A political position. D) Humans can make genuinely free, uncaused choices. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Humans can make genuinely free, uncaused choices. 24. When Genesis 1:1 uses the word, " ..... created ..... " it is giving meaning, purpose, and direction to our existence. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 25. What does Jacques Derrida believe the present moment does at the same time? A) The present moment has no significance. B) The present moment only represents past events. C) The present moment is static and unchanging. D) The present moment looks backward and forward. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The present moment looks backward and forward. 26. What is meant by the following? "A smile every time, but his eyes tell another story." A) The main character experienced a traumatic experience that seems to be etched in his mind. B) The main character smiles even though inside he is hurting, his reality pains him. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The main character experienced a traumatic experience that seems to be etched in his mind. 27. A division of philosophy that is concerned with the fundamental nature of reality and being. A) Metaphysics. B) Ethics. C) Political philosophy. D) Logic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphysics. 28. True or False:the storm described by Pi in chapter 83 was so severe that it had split his water bags open and ruined all of his fresh water. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 29. Which pair aligns with the text's association? A) Pluralism-static character. B) Monism-dynamic change. C) Pluralism-permanence. D) Monism-static character. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Monism-static character. 30. What are some common beliefs that people have similar to metaphysics? A) It refers to the study of time travel. B) Reality. C) It refers to religion. D) It refers to the belief that time is an illusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reality. 31. What did Judith Butler believe created the self? A) Biological inheritance. B) Personal introspection. C) Divine intervention. D) Social and cultural performances. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Social and cultural performances. 32. John used ..... to describe Jesus to the Greeks. A) Philosophy. B) Art. C) Genealogies. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Philosophy. 33. Which concept is related to the idea that reality is not limited to the physical? A) Metaphysical realism. B) Naturalism. C) Materialism. D) Idealism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idealism. 34. What is the efficient cause? A) Result or end of the process. B) Starts the process, the thing that does. C) The stuff from which things are made. D) Law according to which things develop. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Starts the process, the thing that does. 35. A common theme of Cavalier poetry is ..... A) Carpe carpe. B) Carpe autumn. C) Carpe spring. D) Carpe diem. E) Carpe nightem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carpe diem. 36. How did the development of science in the 19th century influence metaphysics? A) It rejected the concept of metaphysics. B) It supported metaphysical ideas. C) It had no impact. D) It combined science with metaphysics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It rejected the concept of metaphysics. 37. All of the following are developing themes in the novel, except for: A) Freedom. B) The Importance of Story Telling. C) What Goes Around Comes Around. D) Religion and Spirituality. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) What Goes Around Comes Around. 38. William Paley's argument states that the order that characterizes the universe must have been designed and set in motion by a supreme being. A) Ontological argument. B) Cosmological argument. C) Deism. D) Teleological argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Teleological argument. 39. Fideism speaks that an individual must take a leap of faith to understand God's existence. A) Batman. B) Blaise Pascal. C) Soren Kierkegaard. D) Friedrich Nietzsche. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Soren Kierkegaard. 40. Deists believe that God does not interfere with the world, answer prayers or create miracles. Who is connected to this theory? A) Voltaire. B) Laplace. C) Hume. D) Marx. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Voltaire. 41. What do the prisoners believe is real while shackle to the walls? A) They believe that the shadows on the wall are magical. B) They believe that the shadows on the wall are cartoons. C) They believe that the shadows on the wall are unreal. D) They believe that the shadows on the wall are real. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They believe that the shadows on the wall are real. 42. What is authenticity? A) Being true to oneself when making moral choices, evidence of bad faith. B) Knowing whether God exists is beyond our rational capabilities. C) Firm disbelief in God. D) The universe is so complexed and organized, it must have had an intelligent designer. Teleological argument in the existence of God. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Being true to oneself when making moral choices, evidence of bad faith. 43. Interesting or curious; fascinating A) Sanguine. B) Exult. C) Intriguing. D) Fiasco. E) Loathsome. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intriguing. 44. Conceptualism maintains that essence ..... A) Is incorporated in individuals or in the rational mind. B) Is a divine attribute exclusive to God. C) Is synonymous with existence. D) Exists only in necessary beings. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Is incorporated in individuals or in the rational mind. 45. Aquinas' argument states a supreme being must exist because of the chain of causes must have a beginning. A) Cosmological argument. B) Ontological argument. C) Deism. D) Fideism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cosmological argument. 46. John Donne, one of the metaphysical poets, wrote in all of the following styles except ..... A) Sonnets. B) Elegies. C) Essays. D) Songs. E) Sermons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Essays. 47. A theist believes that morality is objective and is based upon ..... A) The nature of God. B) The example left by prior generations. C) The preference of every individual. D) The will of those in authority. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The nature of God. 48. A disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of a supreme being. A) Agnosticism. B) Theism. C) Atheism. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Atheism. 49. What is agnosticism A) Views that reject general or fundamenteal aspects of human exsitence, such as objective truth, knowledge, morality, values-human values are baseless. Existence is senseless and useless. Denies moral truths. B) Knowing whether God exists is beyond our rational capabilities. C) Firm disbelief in God. D) An argument that supports the existence of God, refer to the state of being/existing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Knowing whether God exists is beyond our rational capabilities. 50. His perceiver relativity argument states out understanding of the relationship between evil and the universe is based in a extremely limited perspective A) Aquinas. B) Hume. C) Mackie. D) Leibnitz. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Leibnitz. 51. The prisoners symbolize ..... A) People in prison. B) Unenlightened people. C) People who have never read a book. D) Homeless people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unenlightened people. 52. Which philosopher is associated with the idea of mind-body dualism? A) Aristotle. B) Spinoza. C) Descartes. D) Berkeley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Descartes. 53. In metaphysics, what term refers to the fundamental building blocks of reality? A) Matter. B) Atoms. C) Essence. D) Substance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Substance. 54. The Tsimtsum is ..... A) A ship. B) Pi's pet. C) A religious text. D) A type of wild animal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A ship. 55. What book does Pi's mother refer him to read? A) Robinson Crusoe. B) The Qu'ran. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robinson Crusoe. 56. He is an agnostic believes we do not have enough information to make an informed decision or some believe we are not meant to understand whether a supreme being exists. A) Karl Marx. B) Thomas Aquinas. C) Blaise Pascal. D) Thomas Henry Huxley. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thomas Henry Huxley. 57. The logical argument from evil argued on the basis of the free will defence comes from ..... A) JL Mackie. B) Pierre Laplace. C) Rene Descartes. D) John Paul Sartre. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) JL Mackie. 58. According to Daniel Dennett, what is the most important organ? A) The heart. B) The liver. C) The lungs. D) The brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The brain. 59. How does Richard Parker end up on the lifeboat? A) Pi doesn't know how he got there. B) Pi helped him swim to the boat by throwing him a life buoy. C) He jumped into the boat from the sinking ship. D) He was there before Pi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pi helped him swim to the boat by throwing him a life buoy. 60. 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