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Government Recognition (R-XI) No. 004 s.2005 (Pre-school, Grades I-VI); No.012,s.,2005(1st Year to 4th
Year High School);
& No. 09, s. 2009 (For the Complete Secondary Course Sunday High School)

Second Quarter Examination

INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
Grade 12

Name: _________________________________________________________________
Grade & Section:_______ Date: ____________
Teacher: Mrs. Crestina L. Crismundo Score : __________

I. Multiple Choice. Read each question carefully and encircle the letter of the best answer.
1. The classical mind was predominantly secular while the medieval mind was chiefly ___.
a. Conversational b. Theologist c. Philosophical d. Theological
2. Rene Descartes argued that the new science would make the human persons the masters and ____ of
nature.
a. Masters b. Brilliant c. Possessors d. Great
3. Anthropogenic means that object is determine whether an object is valuable or not depending on how
that object is ____ to or in the service of human needs.
a. High b. Expensive c. Valuable d. Beneficial
4. Aristotle said that “ A person is a human being that possesses its intellectual nature in a natural unity
with a material body and this unity is called man as a _____ animal”?
a. Nonthinking b. Rational c. Irrational d. Unintelligent
5. What does the term scandare mean?
a. to rise b. to climb c. to impart d. to drop
6. What is the ability to exercise one’s freedom in any manner?
a. Freedom of Metaphysical c. Freedom of Choice
b. Freedom of Expression d. Freedom of Self
7. What is the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason?
a. Prudence b. Frugality c. Providence d. Transcendence
8. It refers to the “humans are the most significant species on the planet and nature has a value because
it serves their interest”.
a. Anthropogenic interference b. Anthropocentrism c. Medieval view d. Classical view
9. Modern philosophy is the investigation of the metaphysical and epistemological issued caused by
reflection on _________ science.
a. Modern b. Contemporary c. New d. Investigation
10. Hobbes believed that human has naturally desire the ____to live well.
a. Power b. Mastery c. Command d. Control
11. Prudence is the act of making ________ that allows a person to avoid risk.
a. Penetration b. Prudence c. Discrimination d. Good judgment
12. What do you call the state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience?
a. Transgression b. Transition c. Transcendence d. Transformation
13. It refers to the “humans are the most significant species on the planet and nature has a value because
it serves their interest”.
a. Anthropogenic interference b. Anthropocentrism c. Medieval view d. Classical view
14. They trust in scientific method to solve environmental problems.
a. Ecocentrist b. Technocentrist c. Philosopher d. Biologist
15. They would view nature as having control over human society rather than the other way around.
a. Ecologist b. Philosopher c. Technocentrist d. Anthropologist
16. The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical
surroundings.
a. Environment b. Ecology c. Botany d. Zoology
17. It is a community of living organisms in conjunction with the nonliving components of their
environment, interacting as a system.
a. Community b. Biosphere c. Ecology d. Ecosystem
18. Which part of the earth that made up of all organisms biotic and abiotic factors?
a. Hydrosphere b. Lithosphere c. Atmosphere d. Biosphere
19. Part of the earth that consists of water.
a. Ecosphere b. Lithosphere c. Hydrosphere d. Atmosphere
20. Part of the earth that consists of gas.
a. Atmosphere b. Ecosphere c. Hydrosphere d. Lithosphere
21. The hard determinists believes not only that all things are determined, but they are determined
ultimately by purely ____.
a. External factors b. Internal c. Factors d. Interval
22. The chief challenges of freedom is the ____ from the notion of the Divine foreknowledge.
a. Choice b. Solution c. Assertion d. Arguments
23. What are the 2 major challenges in freedom ?
a. Divine Foreknowledge and Dialogue c. Divine Foreknowledge and Arguments
b. Divine Foreknowledge and Providence d. Divine foreknowledge and free will
24. It is the view that defines a free act as one that is exclusively controlled by the person’s will as long as
he / she respects the right of others.
a. Philosophist b. Libertarian c. Economist d. Environmentalist
25. The Three (3 ) components to achieved the absolute freedom are human existence, conscious being,
and ____.
a. Absolute freedom b. Freedom of Choice c. Free will d. Freedom
26. It refers to the most basic level to be oneself, that is, to live in right relation to oneself, to others and to
God.
a. Metaphysical task b. Choice c. Freedom d. Self
27. The self-offered by Soren Kierkegaard is that to be human means to be a ___.
a. Authentic b. Real c. Ghost d. Spirit
28. The relation of the self is not an inert, stagnant, but dynamic relation capable of ______.
a. Self-awareness and option c. Self-awareness and choice
b. Self-awareness and curiosity d. Self- awareness and freedom
II. Crossword puzzle. Cross your answer in the puzzle and write the word on the space provided for. 2
points each.

A I M M A T E R I A L I C I C H
S H E O L O G Y P R E S O N M A
P U L O A R I S T O T E L I A N
I M L N W R Y C E N T S O U L I
R A O E S I N S E T Q D R Q B Q
I L O B A L W A R M I N G G O D
T V E N V I R O N M E N T S D W
A N T H R O P O C E N T R I Y M
A X S P R I T S O U L G E O G H
A N O T H I N G C E N T R I C W

Complete the statement of the following philosophers below.

1. Saint Thomas Aquinas states that matter and ________________ are always united.
2. Jean – Paul Sartre said that the human person is not ready-made and has to always make
himself/herself out of ______________.
3. Thomas Hobbes believed that human person acts according to certain natural ____________.
4. Rene Descartes asserted that the human person is an ______________ mind whose essential
characteristics are to consciously think and that our minds and body are distinct but closely joined.
5. Rene Descartes pointed out that mind and ____________ are absolutely free from one another.
6. Augustine of Hippo believed that the _______________ is not the entire of the human person but his,
so that the body is a prison for the soul and a mark of the human person’s fallen state.

III. List down the following. Arrange the letters inside the parenthesis and write your answer on the
space provided for

A. Anthropogenic Inferences :
1. ( NMRAWIG OLBLAG ) - _________________________________
2. ( ITNOCURTSED OF RWTEA TMESSY ) -__________________________________

B. Three factors of absolute freedom and responsibility

1. ( AMNUH XESCEENIT ) -__________________________________

2. ( SSOUICCON NGEIB ) - __________________________________
3. ( MDERFEO ) - __________________________________