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