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Department of Education
Region IX, Zamboanga Peninsula
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR

KABATAN NATIONAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Vincenzo Sagun District
FIRST QUARTER EXAMINATION
INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
NAME:________________________________GRADE&SECTION:___________DATE:_______SCORE:____
Good luck and God Bless!!!
Objectives: To assess student’s ability in retrieving, recognizing, and recalling previously learned information from
specific facts to complete theories.
Directions: Read and analyze each of the following items carefully. You are to select which of the following options
correctly or best complete/answer the item. Write/shade the letter of the answer on the answer sheet provided.
____1. The principle of holism was summarized in “Metaphysics”, written by which philosopher?
a. Friedrich Nietzsche b. Socrates c. Aristotle d. Plato
____2. He developed the concept of transcendental philosophy which he liberated from the convergence of noe-
Kantianism.
a. Carl Zimmer b. David Hume c. Herald Hoiz d. Jean-Paul Sartre
____3. What is originally meant “Love of Wisdom”?
a. Philosophy b. Ethics c. Epistemology d. Aesthetics
____4. What branch of philosophy explores the nature of moral virtue and evaluates human action?
a. Philosophy b. Ethics c. Epistemology d. Aesthetics
____5. Which deals with nature, sources, limitations, and validity of knowledge?
a. Metaphysics b. Ethics c. Epistemologyd. Aesthetics
____6. What is the science of beauty in its various manifestations?
a. Philosophy b. Ethics c. Epistemology d. Aesthetics
____7. What is only an extension oa a fundamental and necessary drive in every human being to know what is real?
a. Metaphysics b. Ethics c. Epistemology d. Aesthetics
____8. 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
____9. Which is the philosophy of living in “harmony with nature”?
a. Bahala na b. Bayanihan c. Pakikisama d. Kalooban
____10. Which Filipino value is helping others in times of need?
a. Bahala na b. Bayanihan c. Pakikisama d. Kalooban
____11. 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
____12. A term that shows sharing of oneself to others?
a. Bahala na b. Bayanihan c. Pakikisama d. Kalooban
____13. The four main divisions of philosophy are metaphysics, epistemology, axiology, and __________________.
a. bioethics b. logic c. aesthetic d. categorial logic
____14. For Socrates, an unexamined life is a tragedy because it results in grieving harm to __________.
a. the state b. the justice system c. the body d. the soul
____15. For Socrates, the soul is harmed by lack of ____________.
a. knowledge b. wealth c. community d. courage
____16. A question and answer-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
____17. 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 must be false. This kind of argument is known as ______________.
a. modus tollens c. hypothetical syllogism
b. modus ponens d. reduction ad absurdum
____18. He developed the concept of transcendental philosophy which he liberated from the convergence of noe-
Kantianism.
a. Carl Zimmer b. David Hume c. Harald Holz d. Jean-Paul Sartre
____19. The principle of holism was summarized in “Metaphysics”, written by which philosopher?
a. Friedrich Nietzsche b. Socrates c. Aristotle d. Plato
____20. In this book, Aristotle maintains that nature has made all things specifically for the sake of man and that value of
non-human things in nature are merely instrumental.
a. Politics b. Ethics c. Epistemology d. Sophist
____21. What is the Greek term for “all” or “total”?
a. Holos b. Integrum c. Achevee d.Completare

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____22. Which of these is not a proposition under the deep ecology principle?
a. Simple Living c. Personification of Wisdom
b. Human Population Control d. No Correct Answer
____23. This integral part of prudence refers to the understanding of first principles.
a. Intelligentia b. Foresight c. Memoria d. Pilosopiya
____24. What is the Greek name term for “wisdom”?
a. Philos b. Athena c. Sophia d. Grego
____25. Which of these is not an integral part of prudence?
a. Wisdom b. Shrewdness c. Docilitas d. Apocalypsis
____26. The philosophical movement arose to protest the general state of intellectualism and spiritually during the late
1820’s.
a. German Idealism b. Transcendentalism c. Stoicism d. Mysticism
____27. This is where the circumstances must be weighed to determine the correct action.
a. Prudential Judgement b. Confirmation c. Semantic d. Ontological
____28. The famous statement “An unexamined life is not worth living” is attributed to _______________.
a. Aristotle b. John Locke c. Socrates d. Plato
____29. 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
____30. 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
____31. 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
____32. 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 c. the philosophical method
b. propositional logic d. syllogistic reasoning
____33. 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 a. metaphysics c. justification d. belief
____34. The idea that not all events are predetermined is a part of _________________.
a. indeterminism b. libertarianism c. empiricism d. materialism
____35. Which of these theorists wrote about how philosophers have often focused on reason and observation in their
work, rather than emotion?
a. Alison Jaggar c. Donna Haraway
b. Dr. Martin Luther King d. Julia Cooper
____36. Phenomenology is a method that uses _____ to describe things as they appear in consciousness.
a. scientific experimentation c. passive observation
b. first-person information d. active observation
____37. What is pragmatism?
a. A philosophical perspective that states that the truth is what works on a practical level.
b. A branch of philosophy that studies human behavior.
c. A branch of philosophy that studies beauty
d. A worldly wisdom
____38. In the context of philosophy of language, this refers to the position that sentences have meaning that
are independent of their relations to other sentences or beliefs.
a. Context Principle b. Atomism c. Epistemological Reduction d. Semantic Holism
____39. Which of these is not a proposition under the deep ecology principle?
a. Simple Living c. Personification of Wisdom
b. Human Population Control d. No Correct Answer
____40. His book “Heaven and Hell” gives a detailed description of the afterlife, how people live after the death
of the physical body.
a. Emmanuel Swedenborg c. George Putnam
b. Ralph Waldo Emerson d. Jean-Paul Sartre

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