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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A TRUE
B FALSE
Question #2
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B TRUE
Question #3
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B TRUE
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B FALSE
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B TRUE
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B FALSE
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B TRUE
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B TRUE
Question #11
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B FALSE
Question #12
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B FALSE
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B FALSE
Question #14
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B FALSE
Question #15
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B TRUE
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B TRUE
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B TRUE
Question #21
A Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics”
B Kant’s “Grounds for Metaphysics of Morals”
C Plato’s “Euthyphro”
D Plato’s Republic
Question #22
A Humans are capable of being good, but because of their weakness choose to be bad
B Humans are originally pure, but Satan makes them sinful by tempting them
C Humans nature is fallen and sinful from the beginning and they are unable to be good
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 Plato
C Augustine
D Kant
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 refused to bow down to newly created humans
B Satan wanted to become God
C The garden of Eden
D Satan sinned and was cast out
Question #26
A Asceticism
B Moksha
C Bakhti Yoga
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 Islam/Original Sin
B All pairs are correct
C Utilitarianism/Maximizing happiness for the majority
D Cultural Relativism/Universal, Objective Morality
Question #29
A Kama
B Yoga
C Karma
D Nirvana
Question #30
A You shouldn’t cheat on your exams, because it is against the will of God
B You shouldn’t cheat on your exams, because it will produce bad education and will increase unhappiness for the majority
C Cheating is bad, but only in special cases you may, if it is necessary to achieve more important results.
D 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
Question #31
A The 10 commandments
B Cultural Norms
C Good Will
D Useful Consequences of actions
Question #32
A There is no difference, they both believe in the same principle of pleasure and happiness as the final goal
B Bentham believes pleasure is pleasure, but Mill thinks higher, dignified and quality pleasure is the final goal
C Mill thinks Happiness and Pleasure are not the final goal of human beings, but Bentham does
D Bentham believes utilitarianism must maximize pleasure and happiness, but Mill believes in supernaturalism and intuitionism
Question #33
A By necessity, highly metaphoric and symbolic
B Identical in all religions
C Urban and political
D Unnecessary and superstitious
Question #34
A Golden Rule
B Realism
C Pluralism
D Descriptivism
Question #35
A Things are good if they produce more pleasure
B An action is moral if it uses human beings as means to an end
C Kant is skeptical about morality and doesn’t believe there is objective morality
D Things are good and bad in themselves and consequences do not matter
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 Morality is different for different people and it all depends on their culture and upbringing
D Religious people, because it implies a belief in the emotional validity of the human soul
Question #37
A Moral statements that cannot be proven empirically, based on sensory data, are simply feelings and are meaningless
B One should always chose the lesser of two evils
C All spiritual things are logical and therefore moral
D Before taking action, one should carefully weigh “for” and “against” arguments
Question #38
A Humans possess innate ability to foresee upcoming events
B Humans have a soul and a spirit and both are immaterial
C Moral choices can only be made based on inner conviction and knowledge of right and wrong.
D Human soul reincarnates in many bodies based on its karmic debt
Question #39
A Societal Platonist
B Political Sceptic
C Utilitarianist
D Cultural Relativist
Question #40
A Bentham and Mill
B Kant and Ross
C Rumi and Lewis
D Anselm and Augustine