Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank
to Accompany
Introducing Philosophy, Eleventh Edition
by Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. Higgins, & Clancy Martin
Table of Contents
1
,Test Banks 3
Chapter 1 3
Chapter 2 14
Chapter 3 26
Chapter 4 37
Chapter 5 49
Chapter 6 61
Chapter 7 72
Chapter 8 84
Key Terms 96
Chapter 1 96
Chapter 2 101
Chapter 3 103
Chapter 4 109
Chapter 5 111
Chapter 6 113
Chapter 7 115
Chapter 8 119
Chapter 1 Test Bank
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,Questions indicated with an asterisk also are included in the online student content or the
students’ self-test quiz for this chapter.
True/False
*1. Confucius, a Chinese thinker in the sixth century BCE, believed that each individual has an
impact on the well-being of society by fulfilling his or her role in relation to other people.
a. True
b. False
*2. For Leibniz, space and time are substances.
a. True
b. False
*3. Western philosophy is said to begin with Thales.
a. True
b. False
*4. Plato postulated the pre-existence of the soul to account for our knowledge of Forms.
a. True
b. False
*5. Descartes thought that human existence could be reduced through science to the functioning
of a mere machine.
a. True
b. False
*6. Spinoza believed that there were many substances.
a. True
b. False
*7. Aristotle referred to metaphysics as “first philosophy”, of which he was interested in
investigating the nature of “Being as Being” or ultimate reality.
a. True
b. False
*8. Aristotle also adhered to Plato’s theory of the Forms.
a. True
b. False
*9. Monism is the attempt to reduce all the things in the world to things of one kind.
a. True
b. False
*10. The god of Zoroastrianism is Ahura Mazda.
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, a. True
b. False
11. Teleology explains something by looking for its purpose, goal, or end.
a. True
b. False
12. Causal explanations seek to understand how something came about rather than why it came
about.
a. True
b. False
13. Descartes declared that the principle attribute of the mind was extension.
a. True
b. False
14. The main point of Spinoza’s proof is that if there were more than one substance, then those
substances could not interact.
a. True
b. False
15. The Principle of Sufficient Reason states that any human action is immoral unless there is
sufficient reason for a person to do that particular act.
a. True
b. False
16. According to Descartes, there is only one substance, which is mind.
a. True
b. False
17. Spinoza argued that God, substance, and the cause-of-itself were all identical.
a. True
b. False
18. The Upanishads of ancient Indian Verdic literature features the earliest articulation of a single
ultimate reality.
a. True
b. False
19. Laozi was a religious mystic who rejected Daoism and founded Confucianism.
a. True
b. False
20. Metaphysics is the division of ontology that asks questions about how the universe came to
be, how a substances can exist, how things are composed, and how different substances interact.
a. True
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to Accompany
Introducing Philosophy, Eleventh Edition
by Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. Higgins, & Clancy Martin
Table of Contents
1
,Test Banks 3
Chapter 1 3
Chapter 2 14
Chapter 3 26
Chapter 4 37
Chapter 5 49
Chapter 6 61
Chapter 7 72
Chapter 8 84
Key Terms 96
Chapter 1 96
Chapter 2 101
Chapter 3 103
Chapter 4 109
Chapter 5 111
Chapter 6 113
Chapter 7 115
Chapter 8 119
Chapter 1 Test Bank
2
,Questions indicated with an asterisk also are included in the online student content or the
students’ self-test quiz for this chapter.
True/False
*1. Confucius, a Chinese thinker in the sixth century BCE, believed that each individual has an
impact on the well-being of society by fulfilling his or her role in relation to other people.
a. True
b. False
*2. For Leibniz, space and time are substances.
a. True
b. False
*3. Western philosophy is said to begin with Thales.
a. True
b. False
*4. Plato postulated the pre-existence of the soul to account for our knowledge of Forms.
a. True
b. False
*5. Descartes thought that human existence could be reduced through science to the functioning
of a mere machine.
a. True
b. False
*6. Spinoza believed that there were many substances.
a. True
b. False
*7. Aristotle referred to metaphysics as “first philosophy”, of which he was interested in
investigating the nature of “Being as Being” or ultimate reality.
a. True
b. False
*8. Aristotle also adhered to Plato’s theory of the Forms.
a. True
b. False
*9. Monism is the attempt to reduce all the things in the world to things of one kind.
a. True
b. False
*10. The god of Zoroastrianism is Ahura Mazda.
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, a. True
b. False
11. Teleology explains something by looking for its purpose, goal, or end.
a. True
b. False
12. Causal explanations seek to understand how something came about rather than why it came
about.
a. True
b. False
13. Descartes declared that the principle attribute of the mind was extension.
a. True
b. False
14. The main point of Spinoza’s proof is that if there were more than one substance, then those
substances could not interact.
a. True
b. False
15. The Principle of Sufficient Reason states that any human action is immoral unless there is
sufficient reason for a person to do that particular act.
a. True
b. False
16. According to Descartes, there is only one substance, which is mind.
a. True
b. False
17. Spinoza argued that God, substance, and the cause-of-itself were all identical.
a. True
b. False
18. The Upanishads of ancient Indian Verdic literature features the earliest articulation of a single
ultimate reality.
a. True
b. False
19. Laozi was a religious mystic who rejected Daoism and founded Confucianism.
a. True
b. False
20. Metaphysics is the division of ontology that asks questions about how the universe came to
be, how a substances can exist, how things are composed, and how different substances interact.
a. True
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