WorksheetsFormative Assessment
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 10mins
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. 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. 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. Who claimed that everything we experience is "water" (reality) and everything else is "appearance"?
Plato
Socrates
Thales
Aristotle
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. Which branch of philosophy explores the nature of moral virtue and evaluates human actions?
Metaphysics
Ethics
Epistemology
Aesthetics
7. Socrates believed that to be happy is to live a:
Wealthy life
Virtuous life
Powerful life
Solitary life
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. The branch of philosophy that deals with the nature, sources, limitations, and validity of knowledge is:
Epistemology
Ethics
Metaphysics
Logic
10. Logic comes from the Greek word "logike," which was coined by:
Aristotle
Cicero
Philoponus
Zeno, the Stoic
11. What does "Philo" mean in the word "Philosophy"?
Love
Reason
Knowledge
Wisdom
12. Which characteristic of philosophy implies it is not one-dimensional or partial, and a philosopher does not limit himself to a particular object of inquiry?
Science
Study of All Things
Natural Light of Reason
First Cause or Highest Principle
13. The principle that states "nothing exists without sufficient reason for its being and existence" is the:
Principle of Identity
Principle of Excluded Middle
Principle of Sufficient Reason
Principle of Non-Contradiction
14. What does "Sophia" mean in the word "Philosophy"?
Love
Being
Truth
Wisdom
15. The principle that states "nothing exists without sufficient reason for its being and existence" is the:
Principle of Sufficient Reason
Principle of Non-Contradiction
Principle of Identity
Principle of Excluded Middle
