What does the Greek word “onto” mean?
A. dialectics
B. consciousness
C. cognition
D. being
E. Knowledge
ANSWER: D
What does the Greek word “logia” mean?
A. scientist
B. scientific
C. research
D. science
E. Subject
ANSWER: D
What do the philosophers of Platonic school contend?
A. All nouns belong to collections
B. All nouns belong to classes
C. All nouns belong to models
D. All nouns belong to entities
E. All nouns belong to construction
ANSWER: D
What do the philosophers of Non-Platonic school contend?
A. All nouns refer to collections
B. All nouns refer to classes
C. All nouns refer to models
D. All nouns refer to collections
E. All nouns refer to construction
ANSWER: D
Which ontological category refers to “collection of a specific kind of intellectual activity”?
A. mind
B. geometry
C. society
D. knowledge
E. being
ANSWER: B
Whose words: "He who possesses the highest knowledge with respect to one or another genus must be able to express the most certain principles of the relevant subject, so that he, who treats about Beings in so far as they are Beings, should be able to express the most certain principles of all things. This is the philosopher"?
A. Plato
B. Kant
C. Marx
D. Socrates
E. Aristotle
ANSWER: E
… also called bodies, or physical particulars, or concrete things, or matter, or maybe substances
A. Time
B. Space
C. Propositions
D. Physical objects
E. Events
ANSWER: D

Whose words “mind as distinct from the body”?
A. Rene Descartes
B. Kant
C. Ficht
D. Hegel
E. Plato
ANSWER: A
… is called the quality or attribute of an object.
A. Time
B. Space
C. Property
D. Proposition
E. Mind
ANSWER: C
The question ‘What is knowledge?’ refers to …
A. epistemology
B. ontology
C. neoplatonism
D. metaphysics
E. dualism
ANSWER: A
The first theories of knowledge stressed its … character
A. absolute, permanent
B. universal
C. temporary
D. concrete
E. changing
ANSWER: A
The later theories of knowledge put the emphasis on its … or situation-dependence
A. relativity
B. permanence
C. universal character
D. stability
E. independence
ANSWER: A
Who said that “knowledge is merely an awareness of absolute, universal Ideas or Forms”?
A. Aristotle
B. Socrates
C. Plato
D. Kant
E. Marx
ANSWER: C
Who accepted that “knowledge is an apprehension of necessary and universal principles”?
A. Aristotle
B. Socrates
C. Plato
D. Kant
E. Marx
ANSWER: A

Which main epistemological positions dominated in the philosophy of the Renaissance?
A. empiricism
B. rationalism
C. empiricism and rationalism
D. materialism
E. dualism
ANSWER: C
What sees knowledge as the product of sensory perception?
A. empiricism
B. rationalism
C. empiricism and rationalism
D. materialism
E. dualism
ANSWER: A
What sees knowledge as the product of rational reflection?
A. empiricism
B. rationalism
C. empiricism and rationalism
D. materialism
E. dualism
ANSWER: B
… assumes that all knowledge is built up from scratch by the subject of knowledge.
A. Pragmatic epistemology
B. Memetics
C. Proper epistemology
D. Constructivism
E. Evolutionary epistemology
ANSWER: D
According to …, knowledge is seen as largely independent of a hypothetical 'external reality' or environment.
A. pragmatic epistemology
B. memetics
C. proper epistemology
D. constructivism
E. evolutionary epistemology
ANSWER: D
A proper epistemology may be called …
A. pragmatic epistemology
B. memetics
C. proper epistemology
D. constructivism
E. evolutionary epistemology
ANSWER: B
A piece of knowledge that can be transmitted or replicated is called …
A. event
B. mind
C. meme
D. construction
E. evolution
ANSWER: C

When was the term “ontology” introduced?
A. in 17th century
B. in 18th century
C. in 16th century
D. in 20th century
E. in 21th century
ANSWER: A
Which form of being does “being of things and processes, produced by a man” belong to?
A. being of things and processes
B. being of a man
C. being of God
D. social being
E. spiritual being
ANSWER: A
Which form of being does “being of a man in the world of objects” belong to?
A. being of things and processes
B. being of a man
C. being of God
D. social being
E. spiritual being
ANSWER: B
Which form of being does “individual, spiritual” belong to?
A. being of things and processes
B. being of a man
C. being of God
D. social being
E. spiritual being
ANSWER: E
Which form of being does “being of a man in the society” belong to?
A. being of things and processes
B. being of a man
C. being of God
D. social being
E. spiritual being
ANSWER: D
Which form of being does mythology belong to?
A. being of things and processes
B. being of a man
C. being of God
D. social being
E. spiritual being
ANSWER: E
Which types of consciousness do you know?
A. individual and spiritual
B. theoretical and esthetic
C. individual, group and social
D. locomotive and sensory
E. intellectual and moral
ANSWER: C

The ability to create mental images or pictures is called …
A. perception
B. imagination
C. reflection
D. consciousness
E. genetics
ANSWER: B
Mental power by which one can direct one’s thoughts and actions or influence those of others is …
A. affect
B. will
C. sense
D. imagination
E. perception
ANSWER: B
The ability to see, hear or understand things is …
A. affect
B. will
C. sense
D. imagination
E. perception
ANSWER: E
A strong feeling of any kind is …
A. affect
B. emotion
C. sense
D. imagination
E. perception
ANSWER: B
Where did dialectics originate from?
A. ancient Greek philosophy
B. the Middle Ages
C. the Renaissance
D. the Enlightment
E. German classic philosophy
ANSWER: A
Who represented dialectics as theoretical system?
A. Marx
B. Ficht
C. Descartes
D. Hegel
E. Plato
ANSWER: D
What is the objective dialectics?
A. one that lives in the very objects
B. one that lives in the person’s thinking
C. one that is unchangeable
D. one that was developed by Hegel
E. there is no correct answer
ANSWER: A

What is the subjective dialectics?
A. one that lives in the very objects
B. one that lives in the person’s thinking
C. one that is unchangeable
D. one that was developed by Hegel
E. there is no correct answer
ANSWER: B
Which dialectic law explains the political changes in the society?
A. the law of transformation quantity into quality
B. the law of interpenetration of opposites
C. the law of the negation of the negation
D. all the answers are correct
E. there is no correct answer
ANSWER: A
The measurement of something by stating how much there is of it, an amount or number of something is …
A. quantity
B. quality
C. property
D. measure
E. space
ANSWER: A
Who introduced the term “metaphysics” in philosophy?
A. Socrates
B. Plato
C. Aristotle
D. Lenin
E. Skovoroda
ANSWER: C
Quintessential ideas about knowledge in dialectics called…
A. categories
B. principles
C. forms
D. laws
E. ration
ANSWER: B
According to …, all phenomena in the world are planned in advance and the possibility of chance is rejected.
A. determinism
B. fatalism
C. formalism
D. indeterminism
E. providencialism
ANSWER: B
What was dialectics in antique philosophy?
A. the art of debate
B. alternative style of thinking
C. the development of the “absolute idea”
D. the study of the objective world
E. the theory of scientific cognition
ANSWER: A

What is the main antipode of dialectics?
A. metaphysics
B. pantheism
C. cosmocentrism
D. anthropocentrism
E. infantilism
ANSWER: A
Who introduced the classic definition of truth?
A. Hegel
B. Marx
C. Sartre
D. Aristotle
E. Plato
ANSWER: D
What do rationalists determine as the quintessential source of knowledge?
A. mind
B. practice
C. senses
D. truth
E. God
ANSWER: A
Who are the representatives of empirism?
A. Descartes, Leibnitz
B. Lenin, Plato
C. Bacon, Didro
D. Sartre, Kant
E. Hegel, Freud
ANSWER: C
Who are the representatives of rationalism?
A. Descartes, Leibnitz
B. Lenin, Plato
C. Bacon, Didro
D. Sartre, Kant
E. Hegel, Freud
ANSWER: A
Who introduced the first philosophical conception of being?
A. Aristotle
B. Pre-socratics
C. Hegel
D. Leibnitz
E. Medieval philosophy
ANSWER: B
Who contradicted empirical being to “pure ideas” in the antique philosophy?
A. Plato
B. Aristotle
C. Socrates
D. Bacon
E. Dante
ANSWER: A

Who created the study of different levels of being - from empirical to spiritual in the antique philosophy?
A. Plato
B. Aristotle
C. Socrates
D. Bacon
E. Dante
ANSWER: B
What does the Greek word “dialektik” mean?
A. dialectics
B. art of debate
C. thesis
D. antithesis
E. quality
ANSWER: B
The way to show that a given hypothesis leads to a contradiction; thus, forcing the withdrawal of the hypothesis as a candidate for truth is called …
A. the Plato’s method
B. the Hegelian method
C. the Aristotle’s method
D. the Marxian method
E. the Socratic method
ANSWER: E
Who wrote the book “Logic”?
A. Marx
B. Hegel
C. Bacon
D. Aristotle
E. Socrates
ANSWER: B
How many laws of dialectics are there?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 5
E. 12
ANSWER: C
Which philosophical category is originally derived from the Latin con (with) and scire (to know)?
A. consciousness
B. dialectics
C. thesis
D. antithesis
E. synthesis
ANSWER: A
Which branch of philosophy is concerned with the ultimate nature of reality
A. physics
B. metaphysics
C. dialectics
D. antique philosophy
E. medieval philosophy

ANSWER: B
Which philosophical category has “the law of interpenetration of opposites”?
A. dialectics
B. consciousness
C. cognition
D. energy
E. negation
ANSWER: A
Who does the dialectic method of cross-examination belong to?
A. Marx
B. Hegel
C. Leibnitz
D. Descartes
E. Socrates
ANSWER: E
Which metaphysical view states that the conscious mind or a conscious mental state is non-physical?
A. dualism
B. materialism
C. Marxism
D. metaphysics
E. Leninism
ANSWER: A
In which religion can “the idea of the three phases of creation, maintenance of order and destruction or disorder” be found?
A. Christianity
B. Buddhism
C. Hinduism
D. Islam
E. Judaism
ANSWER: C
The exchange of propositions (theses) and counter-propositions (antitheses) resulting in a synthesis of the opposing assertions is …
A. negation
B. consciousness
C. cognition
D. energy
E. dialectics
ANSWER: E
Whose dialectic was presented in a threefold manner comprising three dialectical stages of development: a thesis, an antithesis and a synthesis
A. Hegelian
B. Marxian
C. Fichtean
D.
Plato’s
E.
Socrates’
ANSWER: A
What is the aim of the dialectical method?
A. to try to resolve the disagreement through discussion
B. to try to resolve the disagreement through scientfic

C. to try to resolve the disagreement through linguistic
D. to try to resolve the disagreement through philoslphical
E. to try to resolve the disagreement through logical
ANSWER: A
The idea of the three phases of creation can be found in …
A. religion
B. Chaos theory
C. Vishnu
D. Hinduism
E. Socratic dialectic
ANSWER: D
Complete the model “thesis - … - synthesis”
A. antithesis
B. dialectics
C. dialectics method
D. existence
E. coexistence
ANSWER: A
What is at the heart of Marxist dialectics?
A. the idea of development
B. the idea of consciousness
C. the idea of coexistence
D. the idea of existence
E. the idea of contradiction
ANSWER: E
Is the work … Hegel describes a dialectic of existence
A. Euthyphro
B. Critique of pure mind
C. critique of negative dialectics
D. What is Dialectic?
E. Logic
ANSWER: E
Who is the author of “Logic”?
A. Plato
B. Poper
C. Marx
D. Engels
E. Hegel
ANSWER: E
The term “dialectic” owes much to its role in the … of Socrates and Plato
A. philosophy
B. sociology
C. politology
D. culture
E. history
ANSWER: A
What religious writings were the oldest philosophical literature in the world?
A. writings of Ancient Rome
B. writings of Ancient Greece

C. writings of Ancient Egypt
D. writings of Ancient India
E. writings of Ancient Mesopotamia
ANSWER: D
What does dialectic mean from Greek?
A. art of debate
B. discussion
C. dialectics
D. communication
E. existence
ANSWER: A
Aristotle was a student of …
A. Plato
B. Marx
C. Socrate
D. Leibniz
E. Freud
ANSWER: A
What is the branch of philosophy concerned with the ultimate nature of reality?
A. naturalism
B. dualism
C. materialism
D. rationalism
E. metaphysics
ANSWER: C
How many metaphysical views do you know?
A. 42
B. 32
C. 12
D. 20
E. 2
ANSWER: E
Who was the representative of the theory of mind?
A. Plato
B. Rene Descartes
C. John Locke
D. Leibnitz
E. Immanuel Kant
ANSWER: E
What is the central issue in philosophy of mind?
A. problem of senses
B. problem of properties
C. problem of mental state
D. problem of cognition
E. problem of consciousness
ANSWER: E
.… comes from minimal bodily self-awareness to the ability to reason and reflect on one’s own mental states, such as one’s beliefs and desires.
A. Self-consciousness

B. Social consciousness
C. Cognition
D. Knowledge
E. Consciousness
ANSWER: A
What definition of philosophy seems to you the most appropriate?
A. Philosophy is love of wisdom
B. Philosophy is a state of soul
C. Philosophy is a science of sciences
D. Philosophy is a study about a man
E. Philosophy is wisdom of love
ANSWER: A
What are two kinds of reason?
A. Practical and empirical
B. Theoretical and empirical
C. Historical and theoretical
D. Practical and theoretical
E. Spiritual and material
ANSWER: D
Gnoseology (epistemology) is …
A. the study of being
B. a theory of knowledge, study of the essence, forms and principles of cognition and thinking
C. the study of sources, essence and laws of development
D. the study of man
E. the study of values, including Aesthetics, Ethics and political philosophy
ANSWER: B
Metaphysics is …
A. the study of being
B. it is concerned with such issues as the nature of the ultimate reality, philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, personal identity, freedom of will and immortality
C. the study of values, including Aesthetics, Ethics and political philosophy
D. the study of sources, essence and laws of development
E. a theory of knowledge, study of the essence, forms and principles of cognition and thinking
ANSWER: B
Ontology is …
A. the study of being
B. the study of sources, essence and laws of development
C. the study of the laws of thought and forms of argument
D. a theory of knowledge, study of the essence, forms and principles of cognition and thinking
E. the study of values, including Aesthetics, Ethics and political philosophy
ANSWER: A
Philosophical anthropology is …
A. the study of being
B. the study of sources, essence and laws of development
C. a theory of knowledge, study of the essence, forms and principles of cognition and thinking
D. the study of man
E. the study of values, including Aesthetics, Ethics and political philosophy
ANSWER: D
Logic is …

A. the study of the laws of thought and forms of argument
B. the study of being
C. the study of sources, essence and laws of development
D. the study of values, including Aesthetics, Ethics and political philosophy
E. a theory of knowledge, study of the essence, forms and principles of cognition and thinking
ANSWER: A
It is a vision of the world from an only-center position of a man.
A. Science
B. Society
C. Thought
D. Outlook
E. Nation
ANSWER: D
What are the constituent elements of outlook?
A. Basic components and basics levels of outlook
B. Basic components of outlook, basic levels and forms and historical types of outlook
C. Basic levels and forms and historical types of outlook
D. Basic forms and historical types of outlook
E. Main components of outlook and basic levels of outlook
ANSWER: B
.… is the self-consciousness of a tribe, where development of the individual self-consciousness is not observed.
What is this?
A. Syncretism
B. Mythology
C. Animism
D. Outlook
E. Fetishism
ANSWER: B
What is dualism?
A. Understanding of a man from 2 viewpoints
B. Understanding of a man from 3 viewpoints
C. Understanding of a man from 4 viewpoints
D. Understanding of a man from 5 viewpoints
E. There is no correct answer
ANSWER: A
Who was the first that mentioned the term “philosophy”?
A. Aristotle
B. Socrates
C. Pythagoras
D. Plato
E. Epicures
ANSWER: C
What is a function of philosophy that is directed at comprehension of integrity of the world, at cognition of the background and preconditions of interconnection between man and the world, at systemic-theoretical, logicalconsequent and argumentative solution of outlook problems?
A. Practical
B. Cognitive
C. Methodological
D. Critical
E. Mythological

ANSWER: B
… function proves philosophy to be able to influence the formation both of mass outlook and outlook position of an individual.
A. Cognitive
B. Critical
C. Methodological
D. Vital-practical
E. Mythological
ANSWER: D
… outlook appeared in the period of decay of the tribal system society.
A. Religious
B. Mythology
C. Methodological
D. Philosophical
E. Methodical
ANSWER: A
What are three historical types of outlook?
A. Mythological, religious, philosophical
B. Methodological, religious, philosophical
C. Religious, practical, mythological
D. Empirical, methodological, theoretical
E. There is no correct answer
ANSWER: A
"… Rules of Philosophy".
A. Eight
B. Nine
C. Ten
D. Five
E. Twelve
ANSWER: C
Basic components of outlook are …
A. vital-practical and theoretical constituent elements
B. cognitive, value and motivating-active constituent elements
C. mythological, religious and philosophical constituent elements
D. methodological, religious and philosophical constituent elements
E. there is no correct answer
ANSWER: B
Basic levels of outlook are …
A. vital-practical and theoretical constituent elements
B. cognitive, value and motivating-active constituent elements
C. mythological, religious and philosophical constituent elements
D. methodological, religious and philosophical constituent elements
E. there is no correct answer
ANSWER: A
Forms and historical types of outlook are …
A. vital-practical and theoretical constituent elements
B. cognitive, value and motivating-active constituent elements
C. mythological, religious and philosophical constituent elements
D. methodological, religious and philosophical constituent elements

E. there is no correct answer
ANSWER: C
… is represented as a sum of ideas and knowledge about the world in general and the place of man in it.
A. Value component
B. Motivating-active component
C. Philosophical component
D. Component of outlook
E. Component of cognition
ANSWER: E
… of outlook proves the one to be not only a sum of knowledge but also the reference of a man to the world, others and oneself.
A. Value component
B. Motivating-active component
C. Philosophical component
D. Component of cognition
E. Component of outlook
ANSWER: A
… is directed at realization of the man's own position in life. It consists of the program of behavior, life projects and orders.
A. Value component
B. Motivating-active component
C. Philosophical component
D. Component of cognition
E. Component of outlook
ANSWER: B