Molopolo National High School

Introduction to the Philosophy of the Human Life

Pre-test S.Y. 2019-2020

I. Choose the correct answer write the letter only.

1. Who was the first noted philosopher in the western history that stated that everything is related to
each other because everything that exists contains water?
a. Thales c. Aristotle
b. Socrates d. None of the above
2. What is originally meant “love of wisdom”?
a. Ethics c. Philosophy
b. Aesthetics d. Epistemology
3. Philosophy is the joining of two Greek words which among the following Greek word means love?
a. oikos c. nomos
b. Sophia d.philos
4. Which among the following Greek word means wisdom?
a. nomos c. oikos
b. Sophia d. philos
5. The Filipino attitude as part of life which literally means to leave everything to God which is
Bathala?
a. Bahala na c. Pakikisama
b. Bayanihan d. Kalooban
6. Which is the philosophy of “living in harmony with nature”?
a. Bahala na c. Pakikisama
b. Bayanihan d. Kalooban
7. Which Filipino Value is helping each other in times of need?
a. Bayanihan c. Kalooban
b. Pakikisama d. Bahala na
8. Which is reciprocating debts of gratitude between coordinates and subordinates holds the whole
group together?
a. Pakikisama c. Bayanihan
b. Bahala na d. Kalooban
9. A term that show sharing one’s self to others?
a. Bahala na c. Kalooban
b. Pakikisama d. Bayanihan
10. Aristotle established his own school called
a. The Academy c. The Lyceum
b. The Lycans d. The Academe
11. The word Philosophy derives from:
a. Latin, meaning “love of knowledge” c. Latin, meaning “love of life”
b. Greek, meaning “love of wisdom” d. Greek, meaning “love of science”
12. Plato’s Allegory of the cave can be interpreted as:
a. a move from wisdom to ignorance c. The experience of the forms
b. a way to educating young children d. The process of becoming a journalist
13. An assumption is ____.
a. any idea c. a principle taken for granted
b. a hasty conclusion d. a proof
14. Thales and Anaximander would be considered:
a. Monists c. Rationalist
b. Pluralist d. Empiricist
15. Knowledge often defined as (Plato and other Philosophers):
a. an idea about God c. Justified true beliefs
b. any idea held to be true d. the foundation of self-consciousness
16. If you think that beliefs can be justified in light of the evidence we receive from the mental
process of reasoning or intuition, then you are a:
a. Rationalist c. Materialist
b. Empiricist d. Idealist
17. Heraclitus:
a. believed that the world made up of tiny “atoms”
b. believed that the world was made up of water
c. believed that change has a form that underlies all reality
d. believed that there was an ultimate force ruling the universe
18. Who first describe the grammar of syllogism?
a. Thales c. Aristotle
b. Plato d. Socrates
19. Parmenides and Heraclitus represented two opposite position in which great debate:
a. forms vs. essence c. Nature vs. Nurture
b. The Good vs. Reason d. Permanence vs. Change
20. Empiricists claim that:
a. beliefs cannot be justified
b. knowledge comes through sense experience
c. reason alone can be trusted to provide knowledge
d. we should doubt everything
21. Williams James pragmatic theory of truth is:
a. the same as the absolute truth c. the same as Socrates idea of truth
b. the idea that truth is whatever works d. also called the “scientific method”
22. That which conveys principles that are true, but are not true in fact is called:
a. a conversional truth c. Science
b. poetic truth d. Philosophy
23. “Agreement of thought with reality”. This is the definition of:
a. truth c. subjectivism
b. belief d, The Pragmatic Theory of Truth
24. Who determines truth?
a. No one determines truth c. Society collectively determines truth
b. Philosophers d. Anyone who wants to
25. Philosophers first question is of ultimate reality. This ultimate substance or stuff is referred to as:
a. the archei c. ozone
b. matter d. concepts
26. Who said, “You cannot step in the same river twice.”
a. Heraclitus c. Socrates
b. Zeno d. Plato
27. Zeno used which method of argument?
a. Irony c. Relativism
b. Reductio ad absurdum d. Rationalization
28. Regarding moral truth:
a. the truth lies in conformity to right desire
b. the truth lies in what is accepted by the group
c. the truth lies in conformity to what one wants
d. the word “truth” is inappropriate, because morality is subjective
29. An idea is _______ when they are private, not public.
a. absolute c. innate
b. free from d. subjective or objective
30. An act that asserts something to be true or false.
a. asking a question c. making judgment
b. doing research d. subjectivism
31. “Every claim is either true or false.” This is the definition of ______.
a. the law of the exclude meddle
b. subjectivism
c. objectivism
d. the categorical imperative
32. Those who claim that everything in the universe is made up of one thing are called________.
a. Theologians c. Determinists
b. Monists d. Skeptics
33. Normative claims are _______
a. always subjective
b. prescriptive claims dealing with right and wrong behaviour
c. never true or false
d. often objective and absolute
34. Acts of the mind that can be objectively true or false.
a. opinion c. lie
b. knowledge d. a necessarily true belief
35. Which of the following are prescriptive/normative claims?
a. “We should go the Giants game tonight.”
b. “God Exists.”
c. “Taxes should be increased on gasoline.”
d. “A camel is the ship of the dessert.”
36. Pantheism is the belief that:
a. God is omnipresent c. God created everything
b. There is no God d. The universe is made up of many things
37. Ontology is:
a. the theory of existence (or being)
b. the theory of “ought”
c. the theory of “knowledge”
d. Another name for the Socratic Method
38. Which or who of the following describes those who say the universe is many things?
a. Monist c. Atomist
b. Thales d. Heraclitus
39. The claims 1) “God exists, and 2) “God does not exist,” are:
a. 1) logical 2) illogical c. based solely on blind faith
b. contradictory d. hylozoistic
40. The term hylozoistic describes which of the following?
a. the idea that motion is an illusion’
b. the relationship between the two sides of the “simili of the line”
c. the type of judicial system Socrates faced
d. that which can move itself

Jeremiah 29:11 for I know the plans I have for you, plan to prosper you not to harm you. Plan to give
you hope and a Future.

Prepared by:

Liezl O. Lerin
Teacher I