English Exam

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What does the word "philosophy" literally mean?

love of wisdom

Aesthetics focuses on \________.

definitions of beauty

What big questions do philosophers seek to answer? (Choose all that apply.)

What is real?
What is good?
How should we live?

Where does philosophy have its roots?

Ancient Greece

Metaphysics seeks to understand \________.

the nature of reality

What is the "Philosopher's Toolbox"?

logic

Epistemology seeks to understand \________.

nature of knowledge

Value Theory seeks to understand \________.

What is good?

Examples of "doing philosophy"

how you treat others
why you go to school
arguing with your parents
making choices
how you golf

Ethics discusses \________.

good vs evil as it relates to human behavior

An author who is debating the use of the word "bum" instead of "homeless" is considering \________.

diction

An author who varies sentence length and complexities within his or her writing is practicing good \________.

elegance

An author who considers those who will read his or her work and makes changes to the voice of the written wok based on that consideration is aware of his or her \________.

audience

An author who has many errors in spelling and capitalization hasn't paid enough attention to \________.

formalities

An author who makes sure that what has been written contains useful and reliable information, and that his or her ideas are well supported, is concerned about \________.

content

prison-house, world, light, fire, sun

common noun

God

Proper Noun

have (expressed)

helping verb

is

linking verb

misapprehend, interpret, expressed, knows

action verb

sight, journey, soul, belief, desire, ascent

Abstract Noun

prison-house, world, light, fire, sun

Concrete Noun

Which of the following options, taken from the excerpt above, contain a second-person possessive pronoun?

at your desire

Which of the following sentences is using a relative pronoun correctly?

"At the age of 5, I learned to play the piano all by myself."

He should have called when he arrived at his destination.

helping verb

In the article, philosophy is described as \__________.

"questions that aren't easily answered"

The premise behind such a group is that \__________.

children can be quite thoughtful, although their ideas are often dismissed.

The kids came to consensus on issues such as friendship and bravery.

false

The story used to spur conversation was \__________.

Frog and Toad

Which of the following is a hoped for outcome of such a group?

To teach critical thinking and give the children confidence to explore tough issues.

A modifier can be a word, a phrase, or a clause.

True

"and these either with reference to the thing itself, or relatively to us"

adverbial phrase modifying "these"

"and by the mean, that which is neither too much nor too little for the individual."

adjectival clause modifying "that"

"Now by the mean of the thing,"

The italicized word is not a modifier.

"one make take the greater part,"

article

"In all quantity then,"

adjective, modifying "quantity"

"and the exactly equal is a mean between excess and defect."

adjectival prepositional phrase modifying "mean"

"the less, or the exactly equal,"

adverb, modifying "equal"

An adjective modifies a(n) \________. (Mark all that apply)

Pronoun
Noun

Limiting modifiers

narrow the scope of a thing.

An adverb modifies a(n) \_________. (mark all that apply)

Adjective
Adverb
Verb

A modifier that is too far from the word it is modifying is referred to as a

misplaced modifier

Aristotle defines good as \_________________.

something that fulfills its proper function.

The people chained up in the cave were symbols for \_________________.

all of us

The freed prisoner could represent \_________________.

philosophers

When one prisoner is allowed into the light and experiences reality as it truly is, it is initially \_________________.

a painful and uncomfortable experience.

When the freed prisoner is able to go back to share his experience with his friends, \_________________.

they won't believe him and actually believe that his experience has harmed him.

Eudaimonia is \_________________.

human thriving

Virtue Theory outlines specific actions and rules needed to be a good person.

False

How does Aristotle believe we should learn virtue? (mark all that apply)

Find and emulate a moral exemplar.
Practice.

Virtue is defined as \_________________.

the mean between two vices

How does Wallace define freedom?

Choosing how and what we think about

According to the speaker, worshiping something other than the Divine is \____________.

unconscious

According to Wallace, if people worship something other than a "god or spiritual-type thing", it will \____________.

eat them alive

Wallace claims that the "so-called real world" is propelled by worship of \____________.

self

What Wallace say about atheism?

There is no such thing

The reference Hazleton makes to the "Koran in English [being] a kind of shadow of itself" might be an allusion to \___________________.

Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Hazleton approaches the Qur'an as a faithful Muslim.

False

One of the surprises she mentions is that the Qur'an \______________________________.

is flexible.

According to Hazleton, one of the stated purposes of the Qur'an is to \____________.

renew the message of the Torah and Gospels.

According to the infographic shown in the lesson, which religious family has the most followers?

Abrahamic Religions

Basic knowledge about what people of faith do, believe, and revere is called \________________.

religious literacy

For many people, belief in God is part of their \________________________.

culture

One of the challenges arising for people of faith will be to \_________________________.

describe to non-religious people what it means to live according to an ancient text.

According to the article, more and more people are living without faith.

True

Many modern, liberal societies consider religious past with \____________________.

"a spasm of horror..."

What did Allah teach Adam?

The names - all of them.

God initially spoke to Moses through a \___________.

bush on fire

What is the animal that represents the Devil in Paradise Lost?

The Serpent.

According to Christ, what should someone do if they are hit on the cheek?

Turn your face so they can hit your other cheek as well.

What did Christ claim with regards to his coming and the the current Mosaic Law?

He said that He came to fulfill the law, not destroy it.

Which of the following was one of the signs that God gave to prove his power to Moses?

He made his staff a snake.

What is a key characteristic of the "wise in heart" that Krishna tells the king in the Bhagavad Gita?

The wise in heart mourn not for those who live, nor those that die.

In the Bhagavad Gita, what is the reason that Arjun gives for not wanting to fight the battle?

He doesn't want to kill the very people for whom he is fighting.

What is the Rig Veda? (Mark all that apply.)

a discussion of cosmology and praise
hymns dedicated to Rigvedic deities

Fill in the blanks in this sentence from the Bhagavad Gita: The end of \________ is \________ and the end of \________ is \________.

birth, death; death, birth

What parable is mentioned in the Mjjhima Nikaya excerpt from the Tripitaka?

a man with a poison arrow in his flesh

What is the content of the Sama Veda used for? (Mark all that apply.)

congregational or public recitations
personal and private recitations

What would be the most apt name to describe both Taoism and Confucianism?

Philosophy

What emotion did the Master say would motivate people who are led by virtue?

A sense of shame

Which of the following could be a modern way of summarizing some of the philosophies in the Tao Te Ching?

Go with the flow.

In the Confucian Analects excerpt, why was Small Profit given to the Younger Brother?

The Younger Brother loved his mother as he should and returned a piece of her flesh that had remained after her resurrection.

In the Analects, what did the Master compare ruling with virtue to?

The north star - it stays where it is and all other stars move around it.

The narrative framework of the story compares life to \_________.

school

What can we learn about Morrie from his interaction with Ted Koppel?

He is unimpressed by fame.

Morrie made a "profound decision" after discovering he had a terminal illness; he decided that he would \___________.

not be ashamed to die

According to Morrie, the way to get meaning in life is to devote yourself to \_____________. (Choose all that apply.)

creativity
loving others
your community

What motivated Mitch to quit music and return to school?

His uncle died.

What happened in Mitch's life that led to his weekly meetings with Morrie?

There was a union strike.

Morrie uses a \__________ to teach the idea of the tension of opposites in life.

a rubber band

What does Morrie say about culture?

If it isn't working, don't buy it.

According to George Vaillant, the two pillars of happiness are \_______________.

love and coping with life in a way that doesn't push love away

As mentioned in the article, "How Happiness Became a Cultural Obsession", Aristotle believed that \_________________.

happiness was the by-product of a life of virtue

According to Darrin McMahon, \____________, rather than \____________ has come to be seen as the ultimate aim of life in many cultures.

happiness; service to God

According to Rubin, \________________ is the bedrock of joy and fulfillment.

self-knowledge

Hugh Mackay argues that Western societies \_______________.

have a fear of sadness

To answer what it means to be happy, Gretchen Rubin \_________________.

created the "happiness project and researched what it means to be happy".

In the 18th century, there was a shift from \____________.

being good to feeling good

According to Morrie, the most important thing in life is to \__________.give out love, and to let it come in

give out love, and to let it come in

How does Morrie deal with his situation?

He mourns it for a minute and then he stops mourning.