Formative Assessment

1. 1. Philosophy is defined as the science that studies the first causes or highest principles of all things by means of:

 

• Scientific observation

• Religious texts

• Natural light of reason

• Experimentation

2. 2. Which principle states that it is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time?

• Principle of Identity

• Principle of Sufficient Reason

• Principle of Excluded Middle

• Principle of Non-Contradiction

3. 3. The branch of philosophy that is an extension of a fundamental drive in every human being to know what is real is called:

• Ethics

•  Epistemology

• Metaphysics

• Logic

4. 4. Who claimed that everything we experience is "water" (reality) and everything else is "appearance"?

• Plato

• Socrates

• Thales

• Aristotle

5. 5. According to Plato, what is the nature of reality?

• Physical, changing, and observable by senses

• Unchanging, eternal, immaterial, and detected only by intellect

• Subjective and dependent on individual experience

• A combination of mind and matter

6. 6. Which branch of philosophy explores the nature of moral virtue and evaluates human actions?

• Metaphysics

• Ethics

• Epistemology

•  Aesthetics

7. 7. Socrates believed that to be happy is to live a:

• Wealthy life

• Virtuous life

• Powerful life

• Solitary life

8. 8. W.E.B. Du Bois's philosophy is noted for using the same process as whose dialectic (Thesis > Antithesis > Synthesis)?

• Socrates

• Plato

• Hegel

•  Aristotle

9. 9. The branch of philosophy that deals with the nature, sources, limitations, and validity of knowledge is:

•  Epistemology

• Ethics

•  Metaphysics

• Logic

10. 10. Logic comes from the Greek word "logike," which was coined by:

• Aristotle

• Cicero

• Philoponus

• Zeno, the Stoic