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Class 12 Philosophy Chapter 3 Metaphysics Quiz 6 (25 MCQs)

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1. What are the "worst pair of opposites" for someone stranded at sea?

Correct Answer: D) Boredom and terror.

2. William James support of truth is what works by experience

Correct Answer: B) Pragmatism.

3. According to the narrator, animals in the wild are neither free in ..... or .....

Correct Answer: A) Free in space or in time.

4. What is the literal meaning of "metaphysics" ?

Correct Answer: A) Beyond physics.

5. What was Bertrand Russell's belief about the universe?

Correct Answer: D) The universe doesn't need a reason to exist.

6. What lesson does Pi's father teach him and Ravi by feeding a goat to a tiger?

Correct Answer: D) He teaches them that wild animals are not to be treated the same way as domestic animals.

7. The Allegory of the Cave, like most of Plato's writing, is a .....

Correct Answer: C) Dialogue.

8. God uses worldviews to help us relate to others and help us relate to Him.

Correct Answer: A) True.

9. Which type of materialism explains reality via particles and mechanical laws?

Correct Answer: B) Mechanistic materialism.

10. Where were the two men from who were dispatched to the town where Pi recovered in an effort to interviewhim?

Correct Answer: C) Japan.

11. In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, prisoners see only shadows and believe them to be reality. This links to metaphysics because it asks:

Correct Answer: D) Whether our perceptions reveal or hide the true nature of reality.

12. On the first day, which animals did Pi believe were on the lifeboat?

Correct Answer: A) Hyena, zebra, orangutan.

13. A materialist trusts that only the material world is real

Correct Answer: A) True.

14. What does ontological dualism assert?

Correct Answer: B) Material and immaterial realities both exist.

15. What did Avicenna believe about the self?

Correct Answer: C) Avicenna believed the self must exist and must be separate from the body.

16. What did the interviewers want to know first?

Correct Answer: D) How the ship sank and what happened to the ship's cargo.

17. According to Kant and later positivists, why does metaphysics face a problem?

Correct Answer: B) Metaphysical objects cannot be accessed by the senses, hindering progress.

18. Which attribute of God is challenged by the concept of free will?

Correct Answer: A) Omniscience.

19. Spirituality and religion are the same things.

Correct Answer: B) False.

20. Libertarian free will (in philosophy) means:

Correct Answer: B) Humans can make genuinely free, uncaused choices.

21. When Genesis 1:1 uses the word, " ..... created ..... " it is giving meaning, purpose, and direction to our existence.

Correct Answer: A) True.

22. What does Jacques Derrida believe the present moment does at the same time?

Correct Answer: D) The present moment looks backward and forward.

23. What is meant by the following? "A smile every time, but his eyes tell another story."

Correct Answer: A) The main character experienced a traumatic experience that seems to be etched in his mind.

24. A division of philosophy that is concerned with the fundamental nature of reality and being.

Correct Answer: B) Metaphysics.

25. 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.

Correct Answer: B) False.

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