Modern Practice Test 2.0 Spring 2005 Dr.

LaBossiere

Directions: Read each question carefully and mark the best answer choice on the answer sheet. Please do not mark on this test sheet.
I True/False (1 point each)
T F 1. According to Spinoza objects can be regarded as ideas in the mind of God.
T F 2. According to Spinoza, all things are determined from the necessity of the divine nature to exist and act in a certain manner.
T F 3. Spinoza aimed to find a real good whose attainment would enable one to enjoy continuous, supreme and unending happiness.
T F 4. According to Spinoza, the path to liberation is to abandon the illusion of the intellect and accept God on faith alone.
T F 5. According to Spinoza, an object (such as a rabid gerbil) is a mode of God.
T F 6. While Spinoza is a bit vague by what he means by "intuition" he seems to take it to be an integrated vision of the whole
arising out of the level of reason."
T F 7. Spinoza is a rationalist.
T F 8. Leibniz claims that God could have created a better world, but elected to not do so because He knew that humans would sin
and He wanted to provide a just and suitable punishment.
T F 9. According to Leibniz, God gives creatures any goodness they might have but He bears no responsibility for their sins.
T F 10. According to Leibniz, monads have no qualities at all.
T F 11. Leibniz traveled Europe as a diplomat and met many great thinkers including Robert Boyle, Spinoza and Nicolas
Malebranche.
T F 12. According to Leibniz, there is no causal interaction between minds and bodies.
T F 13. According to Leibniz matter "is a phenomenon like a rainbow."
T F 14. According to Leibniz, an identical proposition is a truth of reason whose denial create a contradiction.
T F 15. According to Leibniz when God creates each monad all its experiences are placed within it.
T F 16. According to Leibniz truths of reasoning are necessary and truths of fact are contingent."

II Multiple Choice (1 point each)

17. Spinoza assumes that the emotions
A. Follow the same logical necessity as everything else and hence their effects should be fully predictable.
B. Are exempt from the logical necessity of the physical world.
C. Are what distinguish humans from God, making them distinct substances.
D. None of the above.
18. According to Spinoza, a substance is
A. "That which is in itself and is conceived through itself."
B. "That which depends on another."
C. "That which is extended, yet does not think."
D. "That which is weighty and substantial."
19. Which of the following would Spinoza accept as true?
A. Since everything is determined by necessity, good and evil is not present in nature.
B. "Good" and "evil" refer to subjective evaluations of how something impacts one's interests and concerns.
C. The same thing may be at the same time both good and evil.
D. All of the above.
20. Which of the following claims would Spinoza accept as true?
A. All things follow from the eternal decree of God.
B. God's decree is not a decision on His part.
C. There is no purpose in events since purpose implies seeking something that is lacking.
D. All of the above.
21. According to Spinoza, some events seem to be contingent because
A. Of deficiency in human knowledge.
B. Some events are contingent.
C. Both A and B.
D. None of the above.
22. Which of the following claims would Spinoza accept as true?
A. Mathematics is key to the structure of the universe.
B. Biology is the key to the structure of the universe.
C. Psychology is the key to the structure of the universe.
D. All of the above.
23. According to Spinoza, the created world
A. Was not created by a freely chosen act.
B. Could not have been produced in any other manner or order by God.
C. Follows of necessity from God's nature.
D. All of the above.
24. Which of the following claims would Spinoza accept as true?
A. One achieves the highest form of knowledge by seeing things as part of an eternal, logically connected system caused by
God.
B. Our intellectual love of God is "our salvation or blessedness or freedom."
C. "He who loves God cannot strive that God should love him in return."
D. All of the above.
25. Given Leibniz's theory, when George dies
A. George will exist as a ghost/spirit without any body at all.
B. George will merge with God and add to His greatness.
C. George will be reborn in another body, possibly that of a crazy ferret.
D. None of the above.
26. According to Leibniz, a monad
A. Is a simple substance.
B. Has no windows.
C. Cannot perish naturally through dissolution.
D. All of the above.
27. According to Leibniz, God
A. Exists.
B. Is the supreme substance.
C. Is perfect.
D. All of the above.
28. According to Leibniz, the City of God
A. Is an assembly of all spirits.
B. Is the highest and most divine of all God's works.
C. Is essential to God's greatness and goodness.
D. All of the above.
29. Leibniz's works include
A. New Essays Concerning Human Understanding.
B. Theodicy.
C. Monadology.
D. All of the above.
30. Leibniz's view is a form of
A. Materialism-the view that all that exists is matter.
B. Idealism-the view that the basic element of reality is mental in nature.
C. Dualism-the view that there are two basic elements of reality-minds and matter.
D. None of the above.
31. Which of the following claims would Leibniz accept as true?
A. Monads are the basic elements of reality.
B. All monads perceive and hence perception occurs throughout all of reality.
C. Monads that are higher minds engage in apperception-conscious perception.
D. All of the above.
32. Which of the following would Leibniz accept as true?
A. The fundamental entities of science are centers of force and not particles of moving matter.
B. The fundamental entities of science are particles of moving matter and not centers of force.
C. The fundamental entities of science are unmoving particles of matter.
D. None of the above.
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Part I True/False
01. T F 03. T F 05. T F 07. T F 09. T F 11. T F 13. T F 15. T F
02. T F 04. T F 06. T F 08. T F 10. T F 12. T F 14. T F 16. T F
Part II MC
17. A B C D 21. A B C D 25. A B C D 29. A B C D
18. A B C D 22. A B C D 26. A B C D 30. A B C D
19. A B C D 23. A B C D 27. A B C D 31. A B C D
20. A B C D 24. A B C D 28. A B C D 32. A B C D
Answer Sheet for Practice Test 2 Modern Spring 2005

# Answer
1 T
2 T
3 T
4 F
5 T
6 T
7 T
8 F
9 T
10 F
11 T
12 T
13 T
14 T
15 T
16 T
17 A
18 A
19 D
20 D
21 A
22 A
23 D
24 D
25 D
26 D
27 D
28 D
29 D
30 B
31 D
32 A