Philosophy Multiple Choice Quiz

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This “Pre-Test” is worth one point (weighted at .5% of your course grade), and you will get that point for answering the question: “This is the Week Four Pre-Test” as true. All of the other questions are worth 0 points. This is exactly the same test you will take at the end of the week as the Week One Post-Test: Reading Quiz, but in that version, each question will be worth .5 point, for a total of 10 points, weighted at 7.5% of your course grade.

Take this Pre-Test early in the week, before you have completed the required readings or even done any reading at all. The point is to use this as a study guide for the Post- Test version. Upon submitting the Pre-Test, you will be able to see only your score, not all of the correct answers. After taking the Post-Test at the end of the week, you will be able to see your entire corrected quiz once the test-access window has closed and everyone has submitted his or her completed Post-Test.

The questions in this quiz are based mainly on this week’s required readings; some basic information from the materials in the Week Four Argumentation learning modules may also be included. Although no quiz questions come directly from the weekly PowerPoint slide lectures, the Focus Lectures, or from the weekly videos and films, reviewing these will reinforce main points from the readings, cement your learning, and help prepare you for the quiz.

There is no time limit for this Pre-Test version of this week’s quiz. The main point of taking this quiz for early in the week is to provide a study guide for your reading and engagement with the other learning materials you will find in each week’s content. You may re-take this Pre-Test as many times as you wish, but you will earn only one point regardless of how many times you take it.

Important note: There is ONLY ONE correct answer for each question. The questions and answer choices are not necessarily direct quotes from the learning materials, so don’t waste time trying to search “key words” for the right answer.

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QUESTION 1

In his treatise on the art of persuasion, the Rhetoric, Aristotle’s distinguishes three types of classic argumentative strategies. They are __________, __________, and __________.

the constructive approach, the destructive approach, and the hybrid approach

the logical appeal, the ethical appeal, and the emotional appeal

the appeal to common sense, the appeal to irony, and the appeal to humor

the “go big or go home” style, the “whack-a-mole” style; and the “plain jane” style

the appeal to origins, the appeal to analogy, and the appeal to favorites

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QUESTION 2

Which of the following best characterizes the Ontological Argument for the existence of God?

If God exists, then God is perfect.

The nature of God is different fro different people of different cultures and religious backgrounds.

The world must have been created by the greatest possible being, and this being is God.

In the case of God, defined as the greatest of all possible beings, essence entails existence.

If God does not exist, then nothing would exist now.

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Which of the following represents a cogent objection to the Ontological argument?

It proves too much.

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To exist is not necessarily better than not existing.

Existence is not a property.

Essences cannot be properties.

Causes do not necessarily precede effects.

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QUESTION 4

Which of the following best characterizes the Cosmological Argument for the existence of God?

It is impossible for a series of causes which bring about any particular circumstance to go back infinitely in time; therefore, there had to be a first cause, which is God.

The universe cannot have been created by anything less perfect than God.

Even at the outmost reaches of the cosmos or universe, we are in the hands of the Creator.

The cosmos is an ordered universe; order is a kind of perfection; only God is perfect; therefore an ordered universe proves that God exists.

The world or cosmos, in all its magnificence, beauty, and complexity, could not have come about unless God exists.

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