Saint John Bosco College of Northern Luzon, Inc.

Lingsat Highway, City of San Fernando, La Union

First Long Test in
Introduction to the Philosophy of the Human Person

Name: Score:
Yr. and Section: Date:

General Instruction/s: This is a 40- item test, read each direction written in every type of the test. Answer
this test in two hours and strictly NO ERASURE!

I. Multiple Choice
Instruction/s: Read and understand each question carefully. Write the correct answer on the space
provided before each number.

______ 1. What is originally meant “love of wisdom”?

a. Aesthetics b. Epistemology c. Ethics d. Philosophy

______ 2. What is the branch of philosophy that explores the nature of moral virtue and evaluates human
action? a. Philosophy b. Aesthetics c. Epistemology d. Ethics

______ 3. Which deals with nature, sources, limitations and validity of knowledge?
a. Metaphysics b. Ethics c. Epistemology d. Aesthetics

______ 4. What is the science of the beauty and art in its various manifestations?
a. Aesthetics b. Epistemology c. Logic d. Philosophy

______ 5.What is really only an extension of a fundamental and necessary drive in every human being to know
what is real? a. Metaphysics b. Ethics c. Epistemology d. Aesthetics

______ 6. It is a Filipino attitude in which literally means to leave everything to God which is Bathala?
a. Bahala na b. Bayanihan c. Pakikisama d. Kalooban

______ 7. Which is the philosophy of “living in harmony with nature”?

a. Bahala na b. Bayanihan c. Pakikisama d. Kalooban

______ 8. Which Filipino value is helping others in times of need?

a. Bahala na b. Bayanihan c. Kalooban d. Pakikisama

______ 9. Which is reciprocating debts of gratitude between coordinates and subordinates holds the whole
group together? a. Bahala na b. Bayanihan c. Pakikisama d. Utang na loob

______ 10. A term that show sharing of one’s self to others?

a. Bahala na b. Bayanihan c. Pakikisama d. Kalooban

II. Identification
Instruction/s: Identify the following questions. Write the correct answer on the space provided before
each number.
_________11. Aristotle established his own school, what is the name of the school?
_________12. It is the study of reasons and arguments.
_________13. It is a belief/judgment or personal perspective.
_________14. It is the difference that makes each person unique (i.e., biology, ethnicity and culture, family life,
beliefs, geography, experiences and religion).
_________15. It is to think or express oneself in a philosophical manner.
_________16. A method of philosophy in which truth is based on exercising choices and personal freedom.
_________17. It is the scientific study of the essential structures of consciousness.
_________18. It is accepted that truth is not absolute.
_________19. It is an argument that has a two statements or premises (major and minor) followed by a
conclusion.
_________20. What Latin word does the abundance came from?
III. True or False
Instruction/s: Write T if the statement is true and write F if otherwise. Write the correct answer on the
space provided before each number.

______21.Abundance is what we gather but not we scatter.

______ 22. Abundance is not what we keep but what we give away.
______ 23. Abundance is not what we hold but what we share.
______ 24.Abundance is not a choice
______ 25. Abundance is to evolve into a higher being.
______ 26. Fallacy is not a defect in an argument.
______ 27. Buddhism is considered as the oldest organized religion.
______ 28. Karma is the ultimate goal of Buddhism.
______ 29. Rigveda is the oldest Indian sacred texts.
______ 30. In Thailand, they believe that God first created sound and the universe arose from it.

IV. Matching Type

Instruction/s: Match column A with the correct answer on column B, write only the correct letter on
the space provided before each number.

Column A Column B
______ 31. Everyone on campus is wearing a nike shoes. A. Appeal to pity
I need to buy those nike shoes too.
______ 32. I know we don’t love each other. But if we don’t B. Appeal to ignorance
get married it will crush my mother’s heart. You
know she has a weak heart. Do you really want to C. Equivocation
do that to her?
______ 33.Honey! I want that dress! D. Composition
Honey, let’s go to other store, you can see more
beautiful dresses that will suit for you. E. Against the person
______ 34.Princess wore her favorite necklace today and
got the highest score in Philosophy. F. Appeal to force
______ 35. 1+1=11, believe that or I’ll smash your face!
______ 36. All trees have barks, G. Division
Every dog barks
Therefore, every dog is a tree. H. Appeal to the people
______ 37. Since Timothy plays basketball well, therefore
the other members of his team also play basketball well. I. False cause
______ 38.Since we cannot prove that P is false, so P is true.
______ 39. Charlotte is not the best person for the job because she J. Hasty generalization
is a mean and selfish person.
______ 40. All the philosophers are wise and Confucius K. Begging the question
is a philosopher. Therefore, Confucius is wise
philosopher. L. Red herring fallacy

V. Essay (5 points each question)

Instruction/s: Read and answer the following questions in four or five sentences only. Write your
answer at the back of the paper.

41-45. If someone in the group disagrees with your ideas, are you open to new ideas not necessarily in
agreement with yours?

46-50. How can we differentiate truth from opinion?

“It is not the grades you’ve earned,

But the things you’ve learned.”

GOD BLESS!

Prepared by:
Ms. Monica D. Navarro
(Teacher)