Written by Natasha Tar
PHIL 100W MIDTERM
Instructions: This is an 100-question, open-book, multiple-choice test. Please fill out you’re Scantron sheet fully. Good luck! Your gonna need it ‘cause you pickle ticklers are all at a C- rn lmfao.
1) What is the definition of philosophy?
a) Love of long, confusing articles and poorly photocopied book pages
b) Love of TAs who talk about their hangover and/or smoking withdrawal symptoms
c) Love of Philosophy
d) Love of Wisdom
e) a and b
*Note: I accidentally put the answers in the wrong order on the Scantron answer key, so mark answer a as e, c as d, b as a, d as c, and e as b.*
2) What is epistemology?
a) The study of knowledge
b) The study of how to make beer taste like piss
c) “(/ɪˌpɪstɪˈmɒlədʒi/ (About this sound listen); from Greek ἐπιστήμη, epistēmē, meaning ‘knowledge’, and λόγος, logos, meaning ‘logical discourse’) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge.[1].”
*Note: Was on a time crunch so shout-out to Wikipedia.
d) It means the same as ideology, that other word you hear in all your classes but still don’t know the meaning of
e) Since I said this is an open book exam you fools should be whipping out your dictionaries right around now
3) In Daniel C. Dennett’s Where Am I? argument, that we went over for several lectures that were so monotonous and similar that you probably barely remember one of them, what was Dennett’s brain called?
a) Either Fortinbras, Firtinbra, Fortinbars, Fortenbras, Forrtinbras, or Fort5inbrAS because I couldn’t spell his name right on more than one slide apparently
b) Yorick
c) Hamlet
d) Poisonous bunch-backed toad!
e) Named it after his Fortnite bud HYp3 B3AST C1UTCH HAz3
4) Who was Socrates famous student?
a) Sockrates
b) Aristotole
c) NPC philosophy dude #4 in Kerning City, MapleStory
d) Pluto (not the planet, but the fake dog from Looney Toons)
e) Plato
5) What is epistemology?
a) Knowledge study!
b) When first-years at a party can’t stop telling you about how sloshed they are
c) Why was I at a first-year party
d) Oh right because the TA is dating one of them
e) Whoops
6) Remember the lecture I spent talking about my gerbil? What was his name?
a) Jackson
b) Greg
c) Arnold
d) Michael
e) both d and a
7) What is epistemology?
a) Jackson
b) Greg
c) Arnold
d) Michael
e) both d and a
*Note: Sorry guys I accidentally copy-pasted the answers for the wrong question so just choose a random letter and I’ll give you a bonus mark.
