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Class 12 Philosophy Chapter 3 Metaphysics Quiz 2 (25 MCQs)

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1. According to C.A. Campbell, what couldn't happen if we could not choose between good and evil?

Correct Answer: C) Moral responsibility could not exist.

2. When Genesis 1:1 refers to " ..... the heavens and the earth." It is referencing the fact that there are two foundational concepts of reality: .....

Correct Answer: D) A spiritual heaven and a physical earth.

3. What is the reference point in the metaphysics of presence?

Correct Answer: B) Present / Presence.

4. What is the mind-body problem in metaphysics?

Correct Answer: D) The mind-body problem is the question of how mind and body are related.

5. Which description matches real vs. ideal existence?

Correct Answer: A) Real:independent entities in the world; Ideal:ideas in the mind.

6. Believes in the idea of free will in the sense the agent is an originator of causal chains

Correct Answer: A) Libertarianism.

7. What did Thales believe the universe was made of?

Correct Answer: C) Water.

8. What is the final cause

Correct Answer: B) The result or end of the process.

9. What does 'eternal' mean when describing the nature of God.

Correct Answer: B) God has no beginning and no end-God has always been there.

10. A worldview acts like a lens that help bring things into focus and equip us to navigate the ideas we face everyday.

Correct Answer: A) True.

11. A spaceship travels near the speed of light, and its crew ages two years while people on Earth age ten. This relates to the metaphysics of space and time because it asks:

Correct Answer: C) Whether time is fixed or can change with motion.

12. Which philosopher wrote about the the Euthyphro dilemma in addressing the relationshop between God, good & evil?

Correct Answer: D) Plato.

13. Thinking is nothing more than electro chemical material reactions in the brain. What theory is this which is associated with Thomas Hobbes & Gilbert Ryle?

Correct Answer: A) Materialism.

14. Which statement best distinguishes essential from accidental properties?

Correct Answer: C) If essential properties are lost, the substance becomes different.

15. What is considered most important in Aristotle's metaphysics of presence?

Correct Answer: A) The present.

16. What did Edmund Husserl believe time is?

Correct Answer: C) Time is a constantly changing "now" .

17. What does essentialism claim about essences?

Correct Answer: B) They exist independently as separate realities.

18. What does the term 'metaphysics' mean?

Correct Answer: B) Study of abstract concepts.

19. According to Aristotle, what remains when all specific qualities of an object are removed?

Correct Answer: C) Substance.

20. Which attribute of God is challenged by the Euthyphro dilemma?

Correct Answer: B) Omnibenevolence.

21. Which philosopher is associated with zen buddhist time?

Correct Answer: A) Dogen.

22. What does Jean-Paul Sartre believes creates our essence?

Correct Answer: A) Our actions and choices create our essence.

23. According to the text, why should opposing metaphysical doctrines be studied together?

Correct Answer: B) To enhance understanding by contrasting their stances.

24. A(n) ..... believes that all of reality is one reality, therefore all of life is connected.

Correct Answer: B) Monist.

25. This theory operates on that every event is an instance of some law of nature, a complete absence of free will.

Correct Answer: A) Determinism.

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