Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region I
CITY SCHOOLS DIVISION OF URDANETA CITY
URDANETA CITY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Urdaneta City, Pangasinan

INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON

UNIT TEST

Direction: Choose the letter of the best/correct answer. Encircle the correct answer.

1. “What is out there?” the statement is concern to which branch of philosophy?

a. Metaphysics b. Existentialism c. Ethics d. Ontology
2. What does the Greek word dialektike means?
a. the Art of Philosophizing c. the Art of Construction
b. the Art of Conversation d. the Art of debating
3. Which of the following elements is expected to come up and must prevail in every dialectic process?
a. Opinion b. Compassion c. Truth d. Acceptance
4. Which of the following scenarios demonstrate the dialectic method?
a. Negotiating with a vendor for a certain product and eventually agreeing on a price
b. Replying to the text message of your mother
c. looking at the bulletin board to read the suspension of classes
d. Giving a speech at your friend’s birthday party
5. “What makes something beautiful? Can I live without beauty?”, What branch of philosophy is concerned
with beauty and art?
a. Epistemology b. Ethics c. Aesthetics d. Metaphysics
6. “Do we have real freedom? Is our life fated?”, This stresses the individual existence, freedom, and choice.
a. Politics b. Ontology c. Ethics d. Existentialism
7. “What really exists? Does God exist? It is a major branch in metaphysics that study of being/existence.
a. Epistemology b. Ontology c. Aesthetics d. Political
8. “What can I know, and how? What guarantee do I have of judgments that are based of memory?”, the study
of scope and knowledge.
a. Metaphysics b. Ontology c. Logic d. Epistemology
9. What should I do?”, It is a branch of philosophy that is primarily concerned with the questions pertaining to
the good life.
a. Aesthetics b. Ethics c. Existentialism d. Ontology
10. “Why is the argument valid? And why?”, demonstrable principles, and the structure of arguments and
statements.
a. Logic b. Politics c. Metaphysics d. Existentialism
11. Which of the following statements is a test implication for the theory that "all birds can fly"?
a. If all birds can fly, then penguins can fly.
b. Helicopters should be considered birds.
c. Penguins are not birds.
d. Penguins are birds or they can fly.
12. What is the difference between truth and Opinion?
a. truth is subjective, while opinion is objective c. Truth can be objective or objective but opinion is
always objective
b. Truth is Objective, while Opinion is Subjective d. Truth is always subjective but opinion can be
subjective and objective
13. Which of the following statement Is true?
1. Opinions can be used in making a dialectic argument.
2. The dialectic process should involve at least two people.
a. Both Statements 1 and 2 are true
b. Both Statements 1 and 2 are false
c. Statement 1
d. Statement 2
14. Which statement supports the basic premises of the dialectic method?
a. Conclusion are made from conflicting ideas
b. The truth is determined solely by objective reason.
a. Statement 1
b. Statement 2
c. Both statement 1 and 2
d. Either Statement 1 and 2
15. What method of Philosophizing deals with examining the past to come up with present truths?
a. Soctratic b. Historical c. Scientific d. Dialectic
16. In the historical method, what is considered as a more valid of truth?
a. history b. logic c. knowledge d. time
17. if you were to use the historical method to determine which among cellphones A, B, and C is the best in
terms of speed and performance, how will you proceed to find a conclusion?
a. Find and look at the specification of each model.
b. ask the salesperson to recommend the best one
c. read reviews about the speed and performance of each mobile phone
d. test each phones to easily determine its speed and performance
18. Which of the following is true?
1. All present facts are based on past inquiries.
2. The historical method sees facts or events as rooted in logic.
a. Statement 1 is false. Statement 2 is true
b. statement 1 and 2 are true
c. Statement 1 and 2 are flase
d. Statement is true. Statement 2 is false.
19. Which of the statement discusses the basic premise of truth in terms of historical methods.
1. The truth is composed of objective and subjective reasons.
2. truth is universal.
a. statement 1 c. statement 2
b. Both Statement 1 and 2 d. Either statement 1 and 2
20. In scientific Method, how is a hypothesis tested?
a. experimenting b. arguing facts c. reading d. observing
21. Which of the following scenarios demonstrates the scientific method?
a. eating only vegetables to see its effects on one’s health
b. answering the math questions of a friend
c. recording your grades in every subjects
d. looking out of the window to see the color of the sky
22. What do you call a collection of individuals shaped by social relations and interaction?
a. societal b. societal class c. social system d. social institution
23. Which type of society focuses on the production and selling of information?
a. Agrarian b. Pastoral c. Virtual d. Industrial
24. David is blue-collared worker in manila. What may be his job and social class?
a. messenger who is part of the working class
b. call center agent who is part of the working class
c. doctor who is part of the upper class
d. waiter who is part if the lower class
25. Which of the following is an example of an upper social class?
a. family who owns one of the leading companies in the country
b. doctor who happens to be top notcher in his licensure exam
c. waiter who owns a house in manila
d. Physical therapist working abroad as the head of a rehabilitation division
26. Which type of society focuses on fuel-driven machinery in goods production?
a. Agrarian b. Pastoral c. Virtual d. Industrial
27. Which type of society focuses on the production of crops and raising of farm animals?
a. Agrarian b. Pastoral c. Virtual d. Industrial
28. Which type of Individual who able to survive life with relatively minimal material difficulty?
a. Lower class b. middle class c. upper class d. working class
29. Which type of Individual who able to experience poverty, homelessness and unemployment?
a. Lower class b. middle class c. upper class d. working class
30. Which type of Individual who typically provides professional services as source of income?
a. Lower class b. middle class c. upper class d. working class
31. What is the ability to exercise one’s freedom in any manner?
a. freedom of self c. freedom of expression
b. freedom of information d. freedom of choice
32. Which of the following demonstrate freedom of choice for college students?
a. deciding between taking the exam or going to a favorite band’s concert
b. reading a book
c. watching over the internet
d. getting sick from recent field trip
33. Sheila chose not to attend her Math class. She decided to watch a movie with her mother instead. What
effect may this bring her?
 a. be unable to understand the next Math lesson
b. develop a psychological disorder
c. be punished by her mother
d. guilt from her decision.
34. Which of the following is true?
1. Freedom of choice has limitations.
2. Freedom of choice requires prudence.
a. both Statement 1 and 2
b. Either statement 1 and 2
c. Statement 1
d. Statement 2
35. What is the process by which people acquire the knowledge, skill, attitudes and culture embedded in their
own society?
a. Assimilation b. Enculturation c. Acculturation d. Economics
36. Which Situation demonstrates a reciprocal interaction between an individual and society?
a. Surfing the internet to read about the country’s current events.
b. Completing the whole school year without any absences or tardiness.
c. Seeing the country’s health care system and deciding to practice medicine in the Philippines despite
numerous international office.
37. Which of the following of enculturation?
a. French Hesitation to speak English even when talking to foreigners.
b. 3- year old Filipino kid living in Manila is taught to use “po” and “opo”
c. French national learned to speak Tagalog after vacationing in the Philippines for six months.
d. Chinese man prefers to engage in business with Filipino nationalist because of the latter’s rich culture.
38. What is the concept where social interaction among individuals validate events occurring in society?
a. inter-subjectivity b. Subjectivity c. intra-subjectively d. communalization
39. What do you call the dialogue where individuals acknowledge that they are part of a greater whole and that
they resonate with others within the whole?
a. Authentic b. Atmospheric c. objective d. subjective
40. What do you call the state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of materials experience?
a. Transgression b. Transcendence c. Transformation d. Transition
41. What does the term scandare mean?
a. to climb b. to impart c. to exist d. to deduce
42. According to this philosopher, the human person is an embodied spirit. Who is he?
a. St. Thomas b. Aristotle c. Immanuel Kant d. Socrates
43. Which of the following is NOT a possibility for transcendences?
a. Learning from experience c. having a positive outlook
b. looking for help d. working to reach a goal
44. Karla is a poor 17 years old girl whose ultimate dream is to finish her studies. What can she do to make her
dream possible?
a. read books on her own c. join the school choir to lessen in her studies
b. work during her free time to gain extra money d. start an organization that fights for human
rights
45. Which of the following scenarios is prudence demonstration.
a. being friendly to neighbors. C. keeping the lights on all day
b. ordering food that you can consume d. searching assignment over the internet
46. Which of the following is not at all a healthy and an ecologically sound practice?
a. Recycling b. Re using c. upcycling d. none of these
47. Which of these is the direct effect of carbon emissions?
a. Ozone layer depletion b. Global warming c. global dimming D. global ice age

48. Which of the following does not cause harm to environment?

a. eating d. watching tv
b. walking d. joyride
49. If two of our beliefs contradict one another, then we know
a. nothing.
b. that both are true.
c. that both are false.
d. that at least one of them is false.
50. A Doubting Thomas is one who_________________.
c. a) douts a lot c)asks for evidence
d. b)believes nothing d)to see is to believe person

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