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Class 12 Philosophy Chapter 3 Metaphysics Quiz 5 (25 MCQs)

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1. Materialism (or physicalism) holds that .....

Correct Answer: B) Everything, including the mind, is physical.

2. Metaphysics is the study of .....

Correct Answer: B) The fundamental nature of reality.

3. In The Matrix, humans experience a simulated world that feels real. This links to metaphysics because it raises the question of:

Correct Answer: A) Whether reality is always as it appears to our senses.

4. The best subject in the world is

Correct Answer: A) Philosophy.

5. Why does Norman Kretzmann say the concept of God is incoherent?

Correct Answer: A) God cannot be both immutable and omniscient.

6. How do the prisoners get free from the cave?

Correct Answer: B) The prisoners are led out of the cave.

7. Which of these questions relates most to the metaphysics of space and time?

Correct Answer: B) Can two objects occupy the same space at the same time?.

8. What is metaphysics?

Correct Answer: A) Branch of philosophy that explores the fundamental nature of reality.

9. Theism teaches that .....

Correct Answer: D) There is a distinct material reality and spiritual reality.

10. In Aristotle's framework, what is a substance?

Correct Answer: B) Anything that exists independently.

11. What did Augustine of Hippo believe the future and the past have in common?

Correct Answer: A) Both the future and the past exist only in the mind.

12. Metaphysics can be described as the study of:

Correct Answer: C) The fundamental nature of reality and existence.

13. During the English Neoclassical Period, all the following genres (types) were popular except .....

Correct Answer: E) Romances.

14. A(n) ..... believes that humans create their own meaning, therefore humans should live for their own personal pleasures.

Correct Answer: D) Materialist.

15. In the context of current ecology, what is often seen as a primary cause of environmental degradation?

Correct Answer: D) Industrialisation.

16. Plato used the word Logos to describe a worldview that made sense of the world. John used the same word, Logos, to describe ..... as the source of his worldview.

Correct Answer: A) Jesus.

17. A metaphysical conceit is an unusual .....

Correct Answer: B) Extended metaphor.

18. What does God is 'omniscient' mean?

Correct Answer: A) All knowing.

19. According to Stephen Hawking, when did time come into existence?

Correct Answer: D) Time came into existence with the Big Bang.

20. In the allegory, the sun represents .....

Correct Answer: C) The Form of Good.

21. I remained faithful to my aquatic guru. Under his watchful eye I lay on the beach and fluttered my legs and scratched away at the sand with my hands, turning my head at every stroke to breathe. I must have looked like a child throwing a peculiar, slow-motion tantrum.Who is the 'aquatic guru' referred to here?

Correct Answer: D) Mr. Francis Adirubasamy.

22. What is the study of the nature of being, existence, and reality called?

Correct Answer: B) Ontology.

23. Piscine Molitor Patel is named after

Correct Answer: B) A swimming pool.

24. What is the paradox that questions the coherence of the concept of God?

Correct Answer: A) The paradox of the stone.

25. What must eternal truth do make itself known?

Correct Answer: B) Appear in the present.

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