JOSIAH CHRISTIAN VALUES HIGH SCHOOL

BLK 26 LOT 3&4 MONTERRA HOMES BUCANDALA 5, IMUS CITY CAVITE

INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY QUIZZES:

(First Quarter)

QUIZ NO. 1 (week 1)

Direction: Answer the following questions, and choose the correct answer. (2 pts. Each)
1. It is the study of fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence, especially
when considered as an academic discipline.
2. It is a Greek word means love.
3. It is a Greek word means wisdom.
4. It is an intellectual person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment.
5. It is an Ancient Greek word which means lover of wisdom.

QUIZ NO. 2 (week 2)

Direction: classify the following questions according to the branches of Philosophy it
belongs to. (2 pts. Each)
1. Can “nothingness” exist?
2. How can you distinguish between a good argument and a bad argument?
3. How should we act in order to follow what is “right”?
4. Is “good taste” innate or learned?
5. How do we know what we know?

QUIZ NO. 3 (week 4)

Direction: identify what kind of fallacies are being describe from the given statement and,
choose the answer inside the box.
CIRCULAR REASONING ARGUMENTUM AD BACULUM

COMPLEX QUESTION POISONING THE WELL

BLAMING THE VICTIM FALSE ANALOGY

ARGUMENTUM AD POPULUM AD MISERECORDIAM

POST HOC ERGO PROPER HOC DICTO SIMPLICITER

HASTY GENERALIZATION

1. My father smoked four packs of cigarettes a day since age fourteen and lived until
age sixty-nine. Therefore, smoking reality can’t be that bad for you.
2. Exercise is good. Therefore, everybody should exercise.
3. Let’s not take Bill to our picnic. Every time we take him out with us. It rains.
4. He replies that he has a wife and six children at home, the wife is a helpless cripple,
the children have nothing to eat, no clothes to wear and no shoes on their feet.
 5. Students should be allowed to look at their textbooks during examinations. After
all, surgeons have X-rays to guide them during an operation, lawyers have briefs
to guide them during a trial.
6. Two men are having a debate, the first one gets up and says. My opponent is a
notorious liar, you cannot believe a word that he is going to say.
7. Lando is a cheater. That is true, if you don’t agree I will tell our teacher that you
also cheated.
8. Everybody in the class is wearing adidas shoes, I need to have one for myself.
9. You have a lot of money that’s why I stole some from you.
10. You can’t get a job because you have no experience, and you have no experience
because you can’t get a job.

QUIZ NO. 4 (week 5)

1. His idea of two worlds is evident in the Christian distinction between this physical
world and the world afterlife.
A. Plato B. Aristotle
C. Socrates D. Descartes
2. In the allegory of the cave, the cave depicts________________.
A. World of gods B. World of abyss
C. World of Senses D. World of Ideas
3. In the allegory of the cave, the outside of the cave depicts_________.
A. World of gods B. World of abyss
C. World of senses D. World of ideas
4. Man’s faculty towards acquiring knowledge is just mere.
A. Memorization; man’s brain is mechanical
B. Nostalgia; man tends to dream about the past
C. Remembering; man knows everything already
D. Intuition; man feels the hype of knowledge
5. Plato likened a man’s physique into a _______________.
A. State B. Cave
C. Dog D. World
6. The father of modern philosophy
A. St. Thomas Aquinas B. Aristotle
C. Socrates D. Descartes
7. Cogito ergo sum means –
A. I am therefore you are B. I think therefore I am
C. I know therefore I think D. I study therefore I know
8. It is a view in the philosophy of mind that mental phenomena are nonphysical.
A. Monism B. Existentialism
C. Solipsism D. Mind–body dualism
9. In the light of Descartes’ philosophy. We may say now that man is not man if he
does not –
A. Think B. Eat
C. Work D. Pray
10. It pertains to our consciousness, self-awareness and the seat of intelligence
A. Thinking Chair B. Thinking Thing
C. Thinking Man D. Thinking Dog
 JOSIAH CHRISTIAN VALUES HIGH SCHOOL
BLK 26 LOT 3&4 MONTERRA HOMES BUCANDALA 5, IMUS CITY CAVITE

ANSWER KEY:
(First Quarter)

QUIZ NO. 1
1. PHILOSOPHY
2. PHILO
3. SOPHIA
4. PHILOSOPHER
5. PHILOSOPHOS

QUIZ NO. 2
1. METAPHYSICS
2. LOGIC
3. ETHICS
4. AESTHETICS
5. EPISTEMOLOGY

QUIZ NO. 3
1. HASTY GENERALIZATION
2. DICTO SIMPLICITER
3. COMPLEX QUESTION
4. ARGUMENTUM AD POPULUM
5. POISONING THE WELL
6. BLAMING THE VICTIM
7. FALSE ANALOGY
8. AD MISERECORDIAM
9. CIRCULAR REASONING
10. POST HOC ERGO PROPER HOC
QUIZ NO. 4
1. A 6. C
2. D 7. B
3. D 8. A
4. B 9. A
5. A 10. A