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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A FALSE
B TRUE
Question #2
A FALSE
B TRUE
Question #3
A FALSE
B TRUE
Question #4
A TRUE
B FALSE
Question #5
A FALSE
B TRUE
Question #6
A FALSE
B TRUE
Question #7
A FALSE
B TRUE
Question #8
A TRUE
B FALSE
Question #9
A FALSE
B TRUE
Question #10
A FALSE
B TRUE
Question #11
A FALSE
B TRUE
Question #12
A FALSE
B TRUE
Question #13
A FALSE
B TRUE
Question #14
A TRUE
B FALSE
Question #15
A TRUE
B FALSE
Question #16
A TRUE
B FALSE
Question #17
A FALSE
B TRUE
Question #18
A TRUE
B FALSE
Question #19
A TRUE
B FALSE
Question #20
A TRUE
B FALSE
Question #21
A Plato’s “Euthyphro”
B Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics”
C Plato’s Republic
D Kant’s “Grounds for Metaphysics of Morals”
Question #22
A Humans have divine nature and do not usually sin, but they make mistakes because of their lack of faith
B Humans are capable of being good, but because of their weakness choose to be bad
C Humans are originally pure, but Satan makes them sinful by tempting them
D Humans nature is fallen and sinful from the beginning and they are unable to be good
Question #23
A Rumi
B Augustine
C Kant
D Plato
Question #24
A There is no one object, but numerous, because each person sees his/her own version of the object
B Objects have three versions: The physical, which is the real, the imitation through art, which is the shadow and the imitation of the imitation, which is the third
C Objects are perceived in three ways: how people perceive them relatively, how people see them emotionally and how people interpret them subjectively
D Each object can have three versions: the one depicted by painters, art, imitators, the second – the actual physical, and the third, which is the only original, true idea of the object
Question #25
A Satan sinned and was cast out
B The garden of Eden
C Satan refused to bow down to newly created humans
D Satan wanted to become God
Question #26
A Moksha
B Asceticism
C Bakhti Yoga
D Hedonism
Question #27
A Usefulness and talents
B Realization that moral actions will be rewarded in a higher reality
C Realization that all art is fake
D One’s loyalty to duty
Question #28
A Cultural Relativism/Universal, Objective Morality
B All pairs are correct
C Islam/Original Sin
D Utilitarianism/Maximizing happiness for the majority
Question #29
A Yoga
B Kama
C Nirvana
D Karma
Question #30
A You shouldn’t cheat on your exams, because if cheating on exams was the moral norm, there would be no exams, so it doesn’t make sense
B You shouldn’t cheat on your exams, because it is against the will of God
C You shouldn’t cheat on your exams, because it will produce bad education and will increase unhappiness for the majority
D Cheating is bad, but only in special cases you may, if it is necessary to achieve more important results.
Question #31
A Good Will
B The 10 commandments
C Useful Consequences of actions
D Cultural Norms
Question #32
A Bentham believes utilitarianism must maximize pleasure and happiness, but Mill believes in supernaturalism and intuitionism
B Mill thinks Happiness and Pleasure are not the final goal of human beings, but Bentham does
C Bentham believes pleasure is pleasure, but Mill thinks higher, dignified and quality pleasure is the final goal
D There is no difference, they both believe in the same principle of pleasure and happiness as the final goal
Question #33
A Urban and political
B By necessity, highly metaphoric and symbolic
C Identical in all religions
D Unnecessary and superstitious
Question #34
A Descriptivism
B Realism
C Pluralism
D Golden Rule
Question #35
A Things are good if they produce more pleasure
B Things are good and bad in themselves and consequences do not matter
C An action is moral if it uses human beings as means to an end
D Kant is skeptical about morality and doesn’t believe there is objective morality
Question #36
A Moral actions are driven by inner motivation originated from consciousness
B Materialists, because it implies a belief that moral actions are simply emotional phenomenon and are not real or valid
C Religious people, because it implies a belief in the emotional validity of the human soul
D Morality is different for different people and it all depends on their culture and upbringing
Question #37
A Before taking action, one should carefully weigh “for” and “against” arguments
B One should always chose the lesser of two evils
C All spiritual things are logical and therefore moral
D Moral statements that cannot be proven empirically, based on sensory data, are simply feelings and are meaningless
Question #38
A Humans possess innate ability to foresee upcoming events
B Moral choices can only be made based on inner conviction and knowledge of right and wrong.
C Humans have a soul and a spirit and both are immaterial
D Human soul reincarnates in many bodies based on its karmic debt
Question #39
A Utilitarianist
B Cultural Relativist
C Political Sceptic
D Societal Platonist
Question #40
A Kant and Ross
B Rumi and Lewis
C Bentham and Mill
D Anselm and Augustine