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1. Non sequitur

The evidence doesn’t support the conclusion

Go with the flow

Create an evil, false image and then attack the evil, false image

The speaker has no credibility or credentials in the area being discussed.

2. Begging the question

Loaded question which dooms the person no matter how he answers

The evidence is the conclusion and the conclusion is the evidence.

Create an evil, false image and then attack the evil, false image

The speaker has no credibility or credentials in the area being discussed.

3. Complex Question

Circular argument

Create an evil, false image and then attack the evil, false image

The speaker has no credibility or credentials in the area being discussed.

Loaded question which dooms the person no matter how he answers

4. Ad populum

Tap into feelings rather than logic

Create an evil, false image and then attack the evil, false image

The speaker has no credibility or credentials in the area being discussed.

Go with the flow, jump on the band wagon

5. The temperature in Corsicana during November reached 72 degrees. This proves that we are experiencing global warming.

Non sequitur

Inappropriate authority

Ad populum

Begging the Question

6. Alabama is the #1 team in the nation because they are the best. Why are they the best? Because they are the #1 team in the nation.

Non sequitur

Red Herring

Ad populum

Begging the Question

7. According to Socrates what will happen to a person if he leaves the cave, experiences the world of the Forms, and then returns to the people in the cave to inform them of what he has seen?

He will be accepted with great joy by those in the cave

He will be ignored by those in the cave

He will suffer at the hands of the people in the cave

None of the above

8. Which of the following is a challenge for materialism?

If everything is matter and since matter changes, it is difficult to have confidence in knowledge.

The fact that 100% of people have a concept of God.

The supposed existence of design in the universe.

All the above

9. In order for good to exist, evil must exist.

True

False

10. In order for evil to exist, good must exist.

True

False

11. A possible explanation for the existence of evil is that people may have the freedom to choose good or evil.

True

False

12. The concept of history originated from which system?

Hinduism

Buddhism

Judaism

Christianity

13. According to Frederick Hegel, progress is based upon which of the following ideas?

If you have 2 contradictory ideas, one of the ideas must win out over the other one.

If you have 2 contradictory ideas, a new idea will emerge which is better than the 2 earlier ideas.

If you have 2 contradictory ideas, a new idea will emerge which is actually a combination of the 2 contradictory ideas.

None of the above.

14. Which of the following is NOT necessary for an event or person to be considered historical in the philosophical sense?

It must be important

It must relate to people

It must be meaningful to the person who experienced the event.

It must relate to the story of life

15. When does Judaism mean when it claims it is an historical religion?

Our knowledge of God is based upon events He performed in history.

Many of the events Judaism describes actually occurred in history.

Archeology actually proves that Judaism is true.

None of the above.

16. Which of the following is NOT a major challenge to Christianity?

Historical verification

The challenge of evil and suffering

The reliability of the Christian documents

The mythological challenge

17. According to C.S. Lewis, if Christianity is true, then the story of Christ serves as the basis for many of the myths, fairy tales.

True

False

18. According to Frederick Nietzsche, myths are actually stories which express the inner life of the person telling the myth.

True

False

19. Which of the following could be an explanation for the fact that innocent people suffer?

In life we are like islands in an ocean independent of each other

In life we are like a pond which experiences ripple effects whenever stones are thrown in

19. Although the downside of freedom may be the possibility of evil, the upside of freedom is that it also allows us to experience real and meaningful relationships.

True

False

20. Which of the following is a challenge Buddhism needs to address?

Is desire really the root cause of all evil?

Do right and wrong truly exist?

What is the answer to ultimate reality (ontological) challenge?

a and c

None of the above

21. Socrates is basing his concept of a transcendent sphere upon which of the following?

The idea of God leads us to conceive of a transcendent sphere.

The truth that this world constantly changes led Socrates to believe that a transcendent world of absolutes exists.

Cause and effect in the world led him to believe that a First Cause (a God from a transcendent sphere) exists.

The fact that life impresses upon us a sense of right and wrong implies that a transcendent sphere exists.

22. Which fallacy does the following statement violate: “President Obama must be from Kenya because he never said he wasn’t from Kenya.”

Argument from silence

Ad populum

Inappropriate authority

Begging the Question

23. Which of the following is a challenge Hinduism needs to address?

Hinduism doesn’t explain enough of reality

Challenge of logic

Hinduism doesn’t account for the concept of resurrection.

None of the above

24. Which of the following authors was working out of the first model of ultimate reality and emphasized in their novels, that is, everything ends in despair?

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings.

C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia.

Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea.

George MacDonald, Phantastes.

25. What is the name of the young man Socrates is addressing in The Republic?

Phaedo

Aristeches

Glaucon

Maimonides

26. Philosophy of History is primarily concerned about which of the following.

Meaning in life

Which events can be proved historically to have happened.

Names, dates, and places of important events.

All the above

26. The movie Thor represents which mythical story?

Doomed star-crossed lovers

The pilgrimage

Romance

Redeemer myth

27. Which logical principle do the two following statements violate: “Dr. Ford is in room 263. Dr. Ford is in room 264.”

Noncontradiction

Appeal to Emotion

Ad populum

Non sequitur

28. When you tap into feelings rather than logic, you have committed which logical fallacy?

Noncontradiction

Appeal to Emotion

Ad populum

Non sequitur

29. When you don’t use logic but rather say, “You need to buy this care because all the cool people have one,” you have committed which logical fallacy?

Noncontradiction

Appeal to Emotion

Ad populum

Non sequitur

30. When you ask the following question, which logical fallacy have you committed: “Have you quit beating your wife?”

Begging the question

Complex question

Non sequitur

Ad populum

31. In the following example, which logical fallacy has been committed? Male: “Whenever a society becomes effeminate, it is only a matter of time before it falls.” Female: “So, are you saying women should never be leaders of a country?”

Red Herring

Equivocation

Straw Man

Argument from Silence

32. As evidence for its claim, Judaism claims

The continual existence of the Jew in spite of losing his land and of severe persecution for over 1800.

Archeological evidence proves Judaism is true.

Moral relativism proves Judaism is true.

Scientific advances proves Judaism is true.

33. According to Plato’s allegory of the Cave, if someone believes that things are beautiful and yet you cannot say that Beauty absolutely exists, then that person is dreaming.

True

False

34. According to Socrates in the allegory of the Cave people on earth are like people who are chained to sit in a cave and look at shadows which are projected on wall in the back of the cave.

True

False

35. In the allegory of the Cave, the shadows on the wall in the back of the cave were created by what?

By the shadows of the people sitting inside the Cave

By the shadows of the Forms outside of the Cave

By the shadows of the ideas the people inside the Cave are projecting onto the back wall

None of the above