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Class 12 Philosophy Chapter 3 Metaphysics Quiz 1 (25 MCQs)

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1. In the allegory, the prisoners represent .....

Correct Answer: B) People who do not realize that they are not seeing reality.

2. Personal identity over time might be based on:

Correct Answer: D) All of the above are theories.

3. What is the main argument of agnosticism?

Correct Answer: A) The existence of God is uncertain.

4. When Genesis 1:1 begins with the words, "In the beginning God ..... " what worldview statement is being made?

Correct Answer: D) It shows that the Bible presumes the existence of God.

5. We are .....

Correct Answer: A) Contingent beings.

6. What did Paul and Patricia Churchland argue about what ideas are?

Correct Answer: D) Ideas are energy flowing through nerves in our brains.

7. Newton believed in absolute time which is the belief time is independent of events.

Correct Answer: A) Absolute time.

8. What is the cosmological argument?

Correct Answer: A) Argument that claims that the existence of God can be inferred from facts concering causation, change, , , about the universe.

9. Which question belongs to the branch of ontology?

Correct Answer: C) What kinds of things exist in the universe?.

10. Pi's thesis for his zoology major concerned .....

Correct Answer: B) An analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth.

11. A "substance" in metaphysics refers to .....

Correct Answer: B) The fundamental thing that exists independently.

12. Which of the following is a metaphysical question?

Correct Answer: D) D) How do I know if something is true?.

13. What is the nature of reality according to metaphysics?

Correct Answer: A) The study of fundamental questions about existence and reality.

14. Belief in something automatically makes it real, no matter what.

Correct Answer: B) False.

15. What are some reasons why speech is privileged above writing?

Correct Answer: A) It is uttered, heard, and responded to in the present.

16. What is the Principle of Sufficient Reason?

Correct Answer: C) The Principle of Sufficient Reason asserts that everything must have an explanation or cause.

17. How do the prisoners respond to being chained?

Correct Answer: C) They are unaware that their situation is anything but normal.

18. Bertrand Russell or Auguste Comte would say that only knowledge that is arrived empirically is scientifically valuable

Correct Answer: B) Logical positivism.

19. Matthew and Luke used ..... to describe Jesus to the Jews.

Correct Answer: D) Genealogies.

20. The question 'Does the colour red exist in the world, or only in our perception?' relates to the metaphysical sub-branch of:

Correct Answer: B) Appearance vs Reality.

21. What is the philosophical view that only material objects exist?

Correct Answer: C) Materialism.

22. What is a better definition of time than Aristotle's?

Correct Answer: A) It affects the past, present, and future equally.

23. What did Baruch Spinoza believe about everything that exists and happens?

Correct Answer: C) Spinoza believed that everything that exists has to exist exactly the way it does and everything that happens has to happen for a reason.

24. The English Neoclassical Period can be divided into what three ages?

Correct Answer: A) Restoration Age, Augustan Age, Age of Johnson.

25. An optical illusion is most relevant to the "appearance vs reality" sub-branch because it shows that:

Correct Answer: D) Our senses can mislead us about what exists.

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