GNS 301 MOCK QUESTION

Studies in Philosophy, Science and Environment

The below exercise are practical questions prepared for the
purpose of getting students ready for the upcoming GNS 301
examination. However, users should have it in mind that, this is
not the real examination questions, as the authors of this
project will not be liable to any dissatisfaction caused in
whatsoever way.
Authors of the project
 Moses Sejiro
 Igbalawunmi Balogun
 Akorede Surajudeen (Aristotle)

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1. In chemistry, _____ is the answer nature gives to a specific question (a) Atoms
(b)Observation (c) Compound(d) Molecules
2. In a categorical syllogism, the major term is the _____ of the conclusion (a)
subject (b) predicate (c) found in the middle (d) silent
3. _____ Postulated the Atomic theory (a) J. J Thompson (b) Rutherford (c) James
Chadwick (d) John Dalton
4. Foundheretism has all the fingerprints of (a) Foundationalism (b) Coheretism (c)
both a and b (d) justification
5. _____is a form of association in which organism benefits from the host’s food (a)
Commensalism (b) Mutualism(c) Parasitism(d) Epidemiology
6. ______ is the antithesis of Idealism (a) Rationalism (b) Realism (c) Externalism (d)
Materialism
7. The term referring to the knowledge of the frequency of disease in animal
communities is _____ (a) Sporadic (b) Epizootiology (c) Epidemiology (d)
Mutualism
8. ______ is Aristotle's first philosophy (a) Politics (b) Nichomachean Ethics (c)
Metaphysics (d) Justice
9. Morality comes from a Latin word 'mos' which means (a) custom/usage (b)
classics (c) epistemology (d) logic
10. The word philosophy is derived from two Greek terms Philo/Philein and Sophia
meaning (a) courage and respect (b) love and wisdom (c) unity and communion
(d) basal ganglin and tabularasa
11. Aristotle was born in ____ (a) 314BC (b) 384BC (c) 399BC (d) 366BC
12. _____is the defined by the World Health Organization as a state of complete
physical, mental and social well being and not merely absence of disease or
infirmity (a) Health (b) Man(c) Biology (d) Science
13. ______ are personal experiences or formal knowledge passed unto others (a)
tension (b) testimony (c) mind (d) reason
14. Three subdivisions of ethics are (a) Meta-ethics, Normative and Empirical (b)
classics, logic and verbatim (c) Epistemology, Metaphysics and Logic (d) none
15. _____ is the school that held that all knowledge begins from sense experience (a)
Empiricism (b) Idealism (c) Rationalism (d) Idealism
16. Two types of foundationalism are (a) inferential and non-inferential (b) lipid and
non lipid (c) basic and evident (d) classics and regress

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17. Organism that causes disease inside the human body are called _____ (a) Cholera
(b) Typhoid (c) Pathogens (d) Influenza
18. _______ is the quest for truth and knowledge (a) Epistemology (b) Metaphysics (c)
Ethics (d) Logic
19. _____ urges us not to accept the idealist or materialist view without
qualifications (a) Idealism (b) Realism (c) Empiricism (d) Rationalism
20. _____Fever is contracted when people eat food or drink that has been infected
with Salmonella typhi (a) Typhoid (b) Cholera(c) Tuberculosis (d) Scurvy
21. The subject matter of metaphysics were called (a) Aristotlean Ethics (b) Platonic
philosophies (c) the treaties after the physical treaties (d) Crypto currencies
22. Reason is to ___ as sense experience is to___ (a) Idealism, Materialism (b)
Realism, Idealism (c) Rationalism, Empiricism (d) Idealism, Rationalism
23. _____is spread by mosquitoes, transfusion, and shared hypodermic needles (a)
Typhoid (b) Malaria (c) Tuberculosis (d) Bacteria
24. _____ answer the questions of the ultimate problem of being and reality (a)
Epistemology (b) Metaphysics (c) Ethics (d) Logic
25. Socrates' school is called____ and was established in what year (a) Academy,
314BC (b) Lyceum, 386BC (c) Academy, 386BC (d) Acadian, 386BC
26. ______ were the first skeptics who criticized the definition and justification of
knowledge vis-a-vis perception (a) Theatues (b) epistemologies (c)
metaphysicians (d) sophists
27. Deficiency diseases e.g Scurvy, Rickets, and Night Blindness are results of _____
(a) Viruses (b) Bacteria (c) Malaria (d) Malnutrition
28. Two types of arguments are (a) valid or invalid (b) Sound or unsound (c) perfect
or imperfect (d) deductive and inductive
29. _____ is a state of keeping mute so as to relieve us of the anxiety of having to
make judgment (a) metaphysics (b) ethics (c) pyrrhonism (d) scepticism
30. _____is caused by lack of Vitamin C (a) Disease (b) Scurvy (c) Cholera(d) Syphilis
31. Metaphysics concerned itself with the following except (a) abstract qualities (b)
scientific observation (c) analysis of factual (d) morality
32. ____are usually associated with aging , it is the gradual loss in one or several
organs or tissues (a) Gonorrhea(b) scurvy (c) Cholera (d) Degenerative Diseases
33. ______ hold that reality is mental or immaterial (a) Realism (b) Idealism (c)
Rationalism (d) Prebendalism

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34. Nigeria has enacted a law on bio-safety known as ____ (a) National bio-safety
management Act of 2015 (b) National Association of Realtors 2017 (c) National
Guard and safety 2010 (d) National biography act 2020
35. Much of the world's population still suffer from _____ (a) Night Blindness (b)
Malnutrition (c) Typhoid(d) Degenerative Disease
36. _____ is an argument in which the truth of the conclusion is determined from the
premises (a) deductive (b) inductive (c) valid (d) invalid
37. _____ is the capacity for consciously making sense of things (a) mind (b) reason (c)
Memory (d) testimony
38. Conjunction is true when (a) one of the conjunct is true, false in other cases (b)
two of the conjucts are false, true in other cases (c) both conjucts are true, false
in other cases (d) one of the conjucts is false, true in other cases
39. _____ is the school that holds that to capture what constitutes reality, reason is
enough (a) Empiricism (b) Rationalism (c) Idealism (d) Realism
40. In logical connectives, the symbol for disjunction is (a) J (b) = (c) V (d) .
41. A condition where both over and under supply of nutrients coexist is _____ (a)
Under nutrition (b) Micro nutrition (c) Double burden of malnutrition (d) Over
nutrition
42. ____ & _____ are examples of materialist (a) Plato and Descartes (b) Democritus
and Gilbert Ryle (c) Berkeley and Leibniz (d) Aristotle and Bentham
43. Plato was born in (a) 460BC (b) 429BC (c) 339BC (d) 442BC
44. _____ is ingested substance capable of being assimilated and utilized for
supporting: Growth, Maintaining body functions, Repairing cells and tissues,
satisfying energy requirements of man. (a) Nutrition (b) Food (c) Chemistry (d)
Biology
45. The subject matter of metaphysics was attributed to (a) Plato (b) Socrates (c)
Andronicus (d) Aristotle
46. COVID 19 acronyms for _____(a) Corona Virus (b) COVID-19 Pandemic (c) Corona
Virus Disease (d) Corona Virus Disease of 2019
47. ______ is a graphical representation of arguments to display all possible
combination of truth values (a) truth table (b) classics (c) graph (d) logic
48. ______ is the store of the mind and recorder of all event (a) Memory (b) Mind (c)
Perception (d) Reason
49. Philosophical endeavor by early Greek philosophers were - in nature? (a) ethical
(b) logical (c) epistemological (d) studious

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50. Truth may be referred to as (a) wrong prescription (b) right description (c)
correct description (d) knowledge
51. 16. Every Proposition that will become knowledge must first be (a) false (b) valid
(c) true (d) pure
52. For Plato, ____ illuminates beliefs and helps in providing justification to the
knower (a) Good (b) Pure (c) knowledge (d) ethics.
53. Which of the following is not a principal advocate of the social contract theory (a)
Jean Jacques Rousseau (b) John Locke (c) Immanuel Kant (d) Thomas Hobbes
54. The way people are is referred to as _____ while the way things should be is
referred to as _____ (a) morality, ethics (b) ethics, norms (c) norms, morality (d)
ethics, morality
55. _____is the increase in the number and size of cells in the organs of the body,
occurring in 3 phases. (a) Nutrient (b)Vitamins (c) Water (d) Growth
56. Ethics seeks to (a) transform the world from what it ought to be to what it
should be (b) change the world (c) transform the world from what it is to what it
ought to be (d) change the way people are
57. Arguments are either (a) bland and sweet (b) invalid and invalid (c) valid or invalid
(d) debate or consesus
58. Memory is a condition of ____ of an object (a)information (b) experience (c)
extension (d) position
59. True metaphysics is considered as a ____ of causes. (a) science (b) series (c) study
(d) art
60. Philosophy arises from which root? (a) Science (b) Arts (c) Psychology (d)
Wonder
61. The major term of a syllogism is (a) the subject of a syllogism (b) the term which
does not occur in the conclusion (c) the predicate of the conclusion of a syllogism
(d)the conclusion of a syllogism
62. The belief that all knowledge begins from sense experience is called (a)
Rationalism (b) Logic (c) Realism (d) Empiricism
63. A philosopher may be thought of as one who pursues ___ just as a lover pursues
his ____ (a) beloved, knowledge (b)knowledge, wisdom (c)wisdom, beloved
(d)beloved, wisdom
64. _____ refers to containments measures deployed to keep biological materials
important for humans, animals and environmental health from theft or misuse (a)
Biosphere (b) Bio-safety (c) Bio-security (d) Biodiversity

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65. Material Implication/Conditional is (a) true when the antecedent is true and the
consequent false (b) false when the antecedent is false and the consequent false
(c) false when the antecedent is true and the consequent false (d) true when the
antecedent is true and the consequent true
66. Externalism of Justification focuses on (a)human trait (b)perception and the
strength of beliefs (c) perception (d) human trait and strength of beliefs
67. _____ is concerned with the health of humans , animals and the sustainable use
of biological resources of the environment (a) Biology (b) Biography (c) Bio-safety
(d) Biosphere
68. Idealism in Metaphysics holds that reality is - substance (a) mental or
psychological (b) psychological or immaterial (c) mental or immaterial (d)
immaterial or thoughtful
69. Ethics is the study of (a)mentality (b)humanity (c)severity (d)morality
70. There is a close affinity between Epistemology and (a) Logic (b) Metaphysics (c)
ethics (d) psychology