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Philosophy Foundations Worksheet - MCQs

Total questions: 48

Worksheet time: 24mins

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Class
Date
1.

When did philosophy arise?

a)

8th–6th centuries BCE

b)

3rd century CE

c)

The 1840s of the 19th century

d)

8th–6th centuries CE

2.

Where did philosophy emerge earliest?

a)

China, India, Russia

b)

India, China, Greece–Rome

c)

Greece–Rome, India, Russia

d)

China, Greece, Egypt

3.

Choose the most accurate definition of philosophy.

a)

Knowledge about nature

b)

Knowledge about society

c)

Knowledge about human thinking

d)

The most general theoretical system of human knowledge about the world and humanity’s position in that world

4.

Choose the most accurate condition under which philosophy arose.

a)

A society without class division

b)

Human cognition only at a sensory level

c)

A society without division of labor

d)

When human thinking reached high levels of abstraction and generalization and an intellectual labor stratum capable of systematizing human knowledge appeared

5.

The term “natural philosophy” designates the characteristic of philosophy in which historical period?

a)

Ancient period

b)

Medieval period

c)

Renaissance

d)

Marxist–Leninist philosophy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

6.

The term “scholastic philosophy” designates the characteristic of philosophy in which historical period?

a)

Ancient period

b)

Medieval period

c)

Renaissance

d)

Marxist–Leninist philosophy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

7.

Which philosophical doctrine most fully embodied the ambition of philosophy to serve as the “science of all sciences”?

a)

Plato’s philosophy

b)

Hegel’s philosophy

c)

Medieval philosophy

d)

V. I. Lenin’s philosophy

8.

What is the second aspect of the “basic question of philosophy”?

a)

Whether humans can know the world

b)

Whether the origin of the world is matter or consciousness

9.

“The great basic problem of all philosophy, especially of modern philosophy, is the problem of the relationship between thinking and being” — this quotation is from which philosopher?

a)

C. Marx

b)

F. Engels

c)

V. I. Lenin

d)

G. W. F. Hegel

10.

Which philosophical school denies the existence of the material world?

a)

Dialectical materialism

b)

Metaphysical materialism

c)

Idealism

d)

Ancient materialism

11.

Acknowledging that humans have the capability to know the world is the content of which doctrine?

a)

Agnosticism

b)

Knowability doctrine

c)

Skepticism and agnosticism

d)

All of the answers

12.

Humans do not have the capability to know the world is the content of which doctrine?

a)

Knowability doctrine

b)

Skepticism

c)

Agnosticism

d)

Knowability and skepticism

13.

Elevating doubt to a principle in examining acquired knowledge and asserting that humans cannot attain objective truth is the content of which doctrine?

a)

Knowability doctrine

b)

Skepticism

c)

Agnosticism

d)

Unknowability doctrine

14.

Denying the objective existence of reality and viewing sensation as the only existence belongs to which philosophical school?

a)

Subjective idealism

b)

Objective idealism

c)

Metaphysical materialism

d)

Dialectical materialism

15.

Find the most correct, most positive aspect of ancient conceptions of matter.

a)

Identifying matter with objects

b)

Providing a foundation for the development of idealist conceptions

c)

Kim hâm supporting the development of scientific thought about the world

d)

Opposing religious idealism and promoting the development of scientific thought about the world

16.

Which school of philosophy acknowledges the primacy of consciousness and considers it an objective spirit that exists prior to and independently of humans?

a)

Subjective idealism

b)

Objective idealism

c)

Metaphysical materialism

d)

Dialectical materialism

17.

Which school of philosophy is characterized by naivety and heavy reliance on direct intuition?

a)

Ancient materialism

b)

17th–18th century metaphysical materialism

c)

Dialectical materialism

d)

Objective idealism

18.

Identifying matter with only certain specific forms of matter is a feature of which doctrine?

a)

Ancient materialism

b)

17th–18th century metaphysical materialism

c)

German classical philosophy’s materialism

d)

Dialectical materialism

19.

Which school of philosophy equates matter with mass?

a)

Subjective idealism

b)

Metaphysical materialism

c)

Dialectical materialism

d)

Objective idealism

20.

What is the defining feature of the metaphysical method?

a)

Understanding objects in a state of motion

b)

Understanding objects in a state of development

c)

Understanding objects within universal interconnections

d)

Understanding objects as isolated and static

21.

Which way of thinking dominated human cognition in the 17th–18th centuries?

a)

Idealist dialectics

b)

Materialist dialectics

c)

Mechanical metaphysical method

d)

Materialist dialectics and the mechanical metaphysical method

22.

Identify the characteristic of the dialectical method.

a)

Understanding objects in isolation

b)

Understanding objects within universal, binding, determined, and mutually influencing interconnections

c)

Separating objects from their relationships

d)

Understanding objects in a static state

23.

What is a characteristic of the dialectical method?

a)

Seeing only the trees but not the forest

b)

Seeing not only the trees but also the forest

c)

Holding that causes of change lie outside things and phenomena

d)

Perceiving objects as detached

24.

The history of dialectics has sequentially gone through which forms?

a)

Spontaneous dialectics, idealist dialectics, materialist dialectics

b)

Spontaneous dialectics, materialist dialectics, idealist dialectics

c)

Idealist dialectics, spontaneous dialectics, materialist dialectics

d)

Materialist dialectics, spontaneous dialectics, idealist dialectics

25.

The statement “Philosophers do not grow up from the earth; they are a product of their time, of the people of their time, but the finest, most costly, and priceless essence is concentrated in their philosophical doctrines” belongs to whom?

a)

Karl Marx

b)

Friedrich Engels

c)

Vladimir I. Lenin

d)

Georg W. F. Hegel

26.

Which philosophy identifies matter only with a few specific forms of matter?

a)

Metaphysical materialism

b)

Ancient materialism

c)

Materialism of the 17th–18th centuries

d)

Dialectical materialism

27.

The view “The essence of the world is consciousness” belongs to which philosophical school?

a)

Metaphysical materialism

b)

Idealism

c)

Dualism

d)

Dialectical materialism

28.

What is the core question of philosophy?

a)

Whether humans are capable of knowing the world

b)

Whether the origin of the world is matter or consciousness

c)

The role of matter with respect to consciousness

d)

The role of consciousness with respect to matter

29.

Marxist–Leninist philosophy was founded and developed by whom?

a)

V. I. Lenin founded, Karl Marx developed

b)

Karl Marx founded, V. I. Lenin developed

c)

V. I. Lenin founded and Friedrich Engels developed, Karl Marx completed

d)

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels founded, V. I. Lenin developed

30.

Marxist philosophy emerged around which period of time?

a)

The 1820s of the 19th century

b)

The 1830s of the 19th century

c)

The 1840s of the 19th century

d)

The 1840s of the 20th century

31.

Marxist–Leninist philosophy arose under which socio‑economic conditions?

a)

The capitalist mode of production had become dominant

b)

The capitalist mode of production had only newly appeared

c)

The capitalist mode of production had turned into imperialism

d)

The capitalist mode of production was in decline

32.

Identify the theoretical sources of Marxist–Leninist philosophy.

a)

The law of conservation and transformation of energy

b)

Classical German philosophy, classical English political economy, French utopian socialism

c)

Classical English political economy, classical German philosophy, the theory of evolution

d)

The law of conservation and transformation of energy and classical English political economy

33.

Identify the natural‑science premises for the birth of Marxist–Leninist philosophy.

a)

Cell theory, the theory of evolution, the law of conservation and transformation of energy

b)

Cell theory, atomic theory

c)

The law of conservation and transformation of energy, atomic theory

d)

The theory of evolution, atomic theory

34.

Identify the defining feature of Marxist–Leninist philosophy.

a)

It is the unity of a materialist worldview and a metaphysical method

b)

It is the unity of an idealist worldview and the dialectical method

c)

It is the unity of a materialist worldview and the dialectical method

d)

It is the unity of an idealist worldview and a metaphysical method

35.

Find the most accurate statement of the function of Marxist–Leninist philosophy.

a)

It provides a materialist worldview and the dialectical method

b)

It provides knowledge about nature to humans

c)

It provides methods of human thinking

d)

It provides social knowledge to humans

36.

The relationship between philosophical laws and the laws of specialized sciences expresses the relation between which pair of categories?

a)

The general and the particular

b)

Cause and effect

c)

Phenomenon and essence

d)

Necessity and contingency

37.

Fill in the blank in the sentence by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: “... in the process of class domination during a certain epoch, it creates productive forces greater than the production forces of all previous classes combined ...” The class referred to is which?

a)

Peasantry

b)

Landlords

c)

Working class

d)

Bourgeoisie

38.

In the history of formation and development of Marxist–Leninist philosophy, what characterizes the period 1841–1844?

a)

The period of forming philosophical views, making a decisive break from idealism and bourgeois democracy to materialism and communism

b)

The period of proposing new philosophical principles

c)

The period of supplementing and comprehensively developing philosophical theory

d)

The early years of the 20th century

39.

In the history of formation and development of Marxist–Leninist philosophy, what characterizes the period 1844–1847?

a)

The period of forming philosophical views

b)

The period of proposing the principles of dialectical materialism and historical materialism

c)

The period of supplementing and comprehensively developing philosophical theory

d)

The early years of the 20th century

40.

In the history of formation and development of Marxist–Leninist philosophy, what characterizes the period 1848–1895?

a)

The period of proposing new philosophical principles

b)

The period of shifting from materialism to idealism

c)

The period of supplementing and comprehensively developing philosophical theory

d)

The period of shifting from materialism to idealism and comprehensively developing philosophical theory

41.

In the history of formation and development of Marxist–Leninist philosophy, which period marks the formation of thought from idealism and bourgeois democracy to materialism and communism?

a)

1841–1844

b)

1844–1847

c)

1848–1895

d)

1841–1847

42.

In the history of formation and development of Marxist–Leninist philosophy, which period marks the supplement and comprehensive development of Marxist–Leninist philosophical theory?

a)

1841–1844

b)

1844–1847

c)

1848–1895

d)

1841–1847

43.

In the history of formation and development of Marxist–Leninist philosophy, which period marks the proposal of principles of dialectical materialism and historical materialism?

a)

1841–1844

b)

1844–1847

c)

1848–1895

d)

The early years of the 20th century

44.

During the period when V. I. Lenin developed Marxist philosophy, what characterizes the years 1893–1907?

a)

Lenin protected and developed Marxist philosophy to establish the Marxist party in Russia and prepared for the first bourgeois revolution

b)

Lenin comprehensively developed Marxist philosophy and led the Russian workers’ movement

c)

Lenin completed Marxist philosophy, linked with research on building socialist society

d)

Lenin summarized the achievements of the October Revolution

45.

During the period when V. I. Lenin developed Marxist philosophy, what characterizes the years 1907–1917?

a)

Lenin protected and developed Marxist philosophy

b)

Lenin comprehensively developed Marxist philosophy and led the Russian workers’ movement, preparing for the socialist revolution

c)

Lenin completed Marxist philosophy, linked with research on building socialist society

d)

Lenin summarized the achievements of the October Revolution

46.

During the period when V. I. Lenin developed Marxist philosophy, what characterizes the years 1917–1924?

a)

Lenin defended Marxist philosophy and prepared for the October Revolution

b)

Lenin developed Marxist philosophy while leading

c)

After the October Revolution, Lenin summarized practical experience, supplemented and completed Marxist philosophy, linked with research on building socialist society

d)

The period of shifting from materialism to idealism

47.

Lenin’s protection and development of Marxist philosophy aiming to found the Marxist party and prepare for the first bourgeois‑democratic revolution in Russia took place in which period?

a)

1893–1907

b)

1907–1917

c)

1917–1924

d)

After World War I

48.

The relationship between philosophical laws and the laws of specialized sciences expresses the relation between which pair of categories?

a)

The general and the particular

b)

Cause and effect

c)

Phenomenon and essence

d)

Necessity and contingency