Melbourne High School
Year 9 Philosophy (Sem2)
Examination 2011
Subject Code: 3PI2
Teacher: Mr R. BARHAM
Date: 10.11.2011
NAME:
Reading Time: 15 minutes
Writing Time: 75 minutes
Supporting Materials: None
N.B. All answers are to be written in this booklet.
Exam Structure and Marking Scheme
SECTION
TYPE
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be answered
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Advised
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Multiple-choice
Questions
15
15
15 mins
15
B
Logic Questions
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2
15 mins
15
C
Short Answer
Essays
4
2
45 mins
20
Total Marks:
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Section A
Multiple-choice Questions
INSTRUCTIONS: Students are to answer ALL fifteen (15) multiple –
choice questions in this section by circling the appropriate option. It is recommended that students spend approximately fifteen minutes on this section.
1.
Which of the following philosophers made this quotation?:
“To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.”
A. Raimond Gaita
B. Blaise Pascal
C. Rene Descartes
2.
Which of the following attributions is correct?
A. Ludwig Wittgenstein invented the first computer
B. Peter Singer championed Animal Rights
C. William James establish modern Economics
3.
What famous allegory did Plato tell to explain the nature of
philosophy to those who have not studied it?
A. The allegory of the grand inquisitor
B. The allegory of the tree falling in the empty forest
C. The allegory of the cave
4.
What is the etymological meaning of the word, „philosophy‟?
A. Love of wisdom
B. Love of truth
C. Love of words
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5.
Which of the following best counters the naturalistic fallacy?
A. Just because something is natural, doesn’t mean that it
is moral
B. If something is natural, then it is moral
C. If something is moral, then it must be natural
6.
Which of the following are ALL central ethical issues raised by
the common practice of meat eating?
A. Rights, social equality, and environment
B. Cannibalism, rights and disease
C. Evolution, taste, and the food chain
7.
Which of the following is a possible ethical reason for not
eating meat?
A. ‘The meat industry is environmentally unsound.’
B. ‘Future evolution of the human race depends on not
eating meat.’
C. ‘My pet dog is an animal, so eating meat is like eating
my dog’
8.
Which of the following is the name of a classical form of
argument?
A. argumentum ad balonium
B. avra cadavra
C. modus tollens
9.
Which of the following are ALL names for elements of formal
logic?
A. Terra Nullius; Bi-conditional;
B. NegationPremise; Tableaux; Transliteration
C. Conjunction; Negation; Conclusion
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10.
What distinction did Aristotle credit his teacher, Plato, with?
A. Arguing in and out of first principles
B. Arguing to and from first principles
C. Arguing over and above first principles
11.
Which of the following best describes moral relativism?
A. Each unto his own.
B. Do unto others...
C. Moderation in all things.
12.
What did Mary Midgley label the view that one culture cannot
judge another?
A. Moral Isolationism
B. Cultural Relativity
C. Ethical Nihilism
13.
Which of the following best describes The Greatest Happiness
Principle?
A. The greatest good for the greatest number of people
B. Happiness is the greatest
C. The greatest happiness is to live morally
14.
What are the two main types of Utilitarianism?
A. Rights Utilitarianism; Duties Utilitarianism Average
B. Act Utilitarianism; Rule Utilitarianism
C. Utilitarianism; Excellent Utilitarianism
15.
Which way of calculating happiness leads to which problem?
A. Average → The Mere Addition Paradox
B. Total → The Mere Addition Paradox
C. Average → The Repugnant Conclusion
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Section B
Logic Questions
INSTRUCTIONS: Students are to answer both logic questions by completing both truth-tables AND tableaux in order to determine the deductive
validity of each argument. It is recommended that students spend approximately fifteen minutes on this section.
N.B. Truth-tables and consequence rules for the connectives are located on
the final page of the exam paper. See ‘Section B supplement’.
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P Q
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Section C
Short Answer Essays
INSTRUCTIONS: Students are to respond to ONLY two of the four
prompts in this section, on the lined pages attached. It is recommended
that students spend approximately forty-five minutes on this section.
1. „Rhetoric is useless without Philosophy to first instruct it in what it
ought to persuade people of.‟ Discuss.
2. „There is nothing ignoble about seeing pleasure as the only good,
for humans are capable of infinitely higher pleasures than beasts.‟
Discuss.
3. „Animal Rights is only the tip of the iceberg of reasons for why it‟s
better to be a vegetarian.‟ Discuss.
4. Critically discuss the following image:
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Section B
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