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Multiple Choice
Directions: Read the questions carefully and encircle the LETTER of the correct answer. Strictly NO
ERASURES.

SET A Questions

1. What is originally meant “love of wisdom”?

a. Philosophy b. Ethics
c. Epistemology d. Aesthetics

2. What is the branch of philosophy that explores the nature of moral virtue and evaluates human action?
a. Philosophy b. Ethics c. Epistemology d. Aesthetics

3. Which deals with nature, sources, limitations and validity of knowledge?

a. Metaphysics b. Ethics c. Epistemologyd. Aesthetics

4. What is the science of the beautiful in its various manifestations?

a. Philosophy b. Ethics c. Epistemology d. Aesthetics

5. What is really only an extension of a fundamental and necessary drive in every human being to know what is real?
a. Metaphysics b. Ethics c. Epistemologyd. Aesthetics

6. The Filipino attitude as part of life which literally means to leave everything to God which is Bathala?
a. Bahala na b. Bayanihan c. Pakikisama d. Kalooban

7. Which is the philiosophy of “living in harmony with nature”?

a. Bahala na b. Bayanihan c. Pakikisama d. Kalooban

8. Which Filipino value is helping others in times of need?

a. Bahala na b. Bayanihan c. Pakikisama d. Kalooban

9. Which is reciprocating debts of gratitude between coordinates and subordinates holds the whole group together?
a. Bahala na b. Bayanihan c. Pakikisama d. utang na loob

10. A term that show sharing of one’s self to others?

a. Bahala na b. Bayanihan c. Pakikisama d. Kalooban

11. The four main divisions of philosophy are metaphysics, epistemology, axiology, and _____.
a. bioethics b. logic c. aesthetics d. categorical logic

12. For Socrates, an unexamined life is a tragedy because it results in grievous harm to _____.
a. the state b. the justice system c. the body d. the soul

13. For Socrates, the soul is harmed by lack of _____.

a. knowledge b. wealth c. community d. courage

14. A question-and-answer dialogue in which propositions are methodically scrutinized to uncover the truth is known
as _____.
a. an argument b. the Socratic method c. the Socratic jest d. a debate

15. If you assume that a set of statements is true, and yet you can deduce a false or absurd statement from it, then the
original set of statements as a whole must be false. This kind of argument is known as _____.
a. modus tollens b. modus ponens c. hypothetical syllogism d. reductio ad absurdum

16. The systematic use of critical reasoning to try to find answers to fundamental questions about reality, morality, and
knowledge is called _____.
a. the argumentative method b. the philosophical method c. propositional logic d. syllogistic reasoning
17. The famous statement “An unexamined life is not worth living” is attributed to _____.
a. Aristotle b. John Locke c. Socrates d. Plato
18. The study of reality in the broadest sense, an inquiry into the elemental nature of the universe and the things in it,
is known as _____.
a. metaphysics b. epistemology c. quantum physics d. axiology

19. Questions like “What is knowledge?” and “What is truth?” are mainstays in the branch of philosophy known as
_____.
a. logic b. metaphysics c. epistemology d. aesthetics

20. According to Socrates, a clear sign that a person has _____ is her exclusive pursuit of social status, wealth, power,
and pleasure.
a. philosophical ambition b. worldly wisdom c. exceptional desires d. an unhealthy soul

21. Michael strongly believes in honesty and tries to tell the truth in every situation; however, he also thinks that it is
correct to lie to avoid hurting people's feelings. This is an example of _____.
A. absurdism B. metaphysics C. justification D. belief

22. The idea that not all events are predetermined is a part of _____.
A. indeterminism B. libertarianism C. empiricism D. materialism

23. Which of these theorists wrote about how philosophers have often focused on reason and observation in their
work, rather than emotion?
A. Alison Jaggar B. Donna Haraway C. Dr. Martin Luther King D. Julia
Cooper

24.Phenomenology is a method that uses _____ to describe things as they appear in consciousness.
A. scientific experimentation B. passive observation C. first-person information D. active
observation

25.What is pragmatism?

A. A philosophical perspective that states that empirical knowledge is not valid

B. A branch of philosophy that studies human behavior
C. A branch of philosophy that studies beauty
D. A philosophical perspective that states that the truth is what works on a practical level

Pause for a while and take a deep breath

SET B

1. Bringing your own cup whenever you refill your coffee in 7-eleven shows what principle of environmental
philosophy?
a. Prudence and Frugality c. Deep Ecology
b. Environmental Aesthetics d. Care
2. President Duterte orders several government agencies to continue cleaning Manila Bay and total rehabilitation of
Boracay Island shows what principle of what sustainability?
a. Prudence and Frugality c. Ecofeminism
b. Environmental Aesthetics d. Deep ecology
3. Mayor Juan Dela Cruz assumes that boys start some of ecological problems.
a. Prudence and Frugality c. Ecofeminism
b. Environmental Aesthetics d. Deep ecology
4. Mayor of Quezon City, declared that the La Mesa Ecopark is a “permanent forest park” as part of city vision of
building a Green City in Quezon, what principle of sustainability did he use?
a. Prudence c. Sustainable development
b. Environmental Aesthetics d. Care
5. Finishing your ordered McDonald’s meal without leftovers shows what principle of sustainability?
a. Prudence and Frugality c. Ecofeminism
b. Environmental Aesthetics d. Deep ecology
6. Minnie Aveline Juan has a rare breed of visual impairment and has graduated as summa cumlaude. Her limitation
did not become a hindrance for her to succeed in life. This is an example of ?
a. Appetitive c. Limitations
b. Transcendence d. Rationality
7. . These are arguments based on faulty reasoning.
a.Opinions c. Arguments
b.Fallacies d. Facts
8. . His most significant ideas were included in the Theory of Forms.
a.Socrates c. Plato
b.Aristotle d. Epicurus
9. Refers to a perspective that considers large-scale patterns in systems and often described as looking at the “big
picture”.
a. Partial Thinking c. Partial Perspective Thinking
b. Holistic Thinking d. Holistic Perspective Thinking

10. This term refers to man as a species and distinguishes man from other animals.
a.Human c. Person
b.Man d. Being
11. Below are the benefits of studying philosophy except? 
a. Sharpens your psychomotor abilities c. Ability to think flexibly
b. Ability to think critically       d. Sharpens your reasoning abilities
12. It is one of the disciplines of Science that studies begin in their ultimate causes, reasons and principles through the
aid of human reason alone.
a. Metaphysics c. Philosophy
b. Epistemology d. Anthropology
13. It is a branch of philosophy that deals with arguments, fallacies and reasons?
a. Religion c. Logic
b.Aesthetics d. Ethics
14. It is a branch of philosophy that deals study on the morality the acceptable things in our society and the difference
between good and bad. 
a. Religion c. Logic
b. Aesthetics d. ethics
15. It refers to a perspective that considers large-scale patterns in system.
a. Analytical Thinking c. Partial Thinking
b. Holistic Thinking d. Critical Thinking 
16. It is a branch of philosophy concerned with the appreciation of art and beauty.
a. Religion c. Logic
b. Aesthetics d. ethics

17. It is branch of philosophy that study knowledge and explores the relationship between belief and truth.
a. Metaphysics c. Philosophy
b. Epistemology d. Anthropology
18. It is an important component of analytical thinking, as an individual focuses on certain areas or aspects of a
problem in order to understand it.
a. Analytical Thinking c. Partial perspective
b. Holistic Thinking d. Ethos
19. It  comes from the Greek word “logos”, meaning idea, argument, account, reason or principle
a. Deductively Logic c. Logic
b. Consistency d. Mathematical Logic
20. It refers to true of the whole time from the fact that it is true of some part of the whole.
a. Composition c. against the person
b. Division d. Appeal to force

21. It is where coercion or the threat of force is given as a justification for a conclusion.
a. Appeal to force c. Division
b. Against the person d. Composition
22. It is one reasons logically that something true of a thing must also be true to all.
a. Appeal to force c. Division
b. Against the person d. Composition
23. It is a kind of truth that refers to “experience and reason”
 a. Private and Public c. Subjective and Objective
b. Universal and Relative d. Empirical and Rational
24. It is a kind of truth that refers to “acceptable to all and some”
a. Private and Public c. Subjective and Objective
b. Universal and Relative d. Empirical and Rational
25. The end of bodily functions which signals the end of a person’s life.
a. death c. reincarnation
b. sickness d. salvation

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