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IB PHILOSOPHY MIDTERM EXAM STUDY MATERIALS QUESTION AND ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
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ESTUDYIB PHILOSOPHY MIDTERM EXAM STUDY MATERIALS
QUESTION AND ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
1. **Which philosopher employed the dream conjecture and the evil demon conjecture as a method to
doubt his own existence?**
- A) Descartes
- B) Camus
- C) Marx
- D) Buddha
**Answer: A) Descartes**
2. **Which philosopher said, "I see that man going down with a heavy yet measured step toward the
torment of which he will never know the end. That hour like a breathing-space which returns as surely
as his suffering, that is the hour of consciousness"?**
- A) Camus
- B) Nietzsche
- C) Hobbes
- D) Plato
**Answer: A) Camus**
3. **Which philosopher imagined that life in a state of nature would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish
and short"?**
- A) Hobbes
- B) Aristotle
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- C) Confucius
- D) Descartes
**Answer: A) Hobbes**
4. **Which philosopher is associated with the concept of Yin and Yang, a dynamic balance of all
things?**
- A) Lao Tzu
- B) Kant
- C) Marx
- D) Nietzsche
**Answer: A) Lao Tzu**
5. **Which pragmatist philosopher rejected fixed, absolute truths and believed that truth is relative to
context and ever-changing?**
- A) John Dewey
- B) John Locke
- C) Camus
- D) George Herbert Mead
**Answer: A) John Dewey**
6. **Which philosopher argued that privatizing social relations of production creates class divisions
between bosses (bourgeois) and workers (proletariat)?**
- A) Marx
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- B) Hobbes
- C) Plato
- D) Aristotle
**Answer: A) Marx**
7. **Which philosopher is associated with Nirvana, or enlightenment and perfect peace?**
- A) Buddha
- B) Descartes
- C) Nietzsche
- D) Sartre
**Answer: A) Buddha**
8. **Which philosopher proposed that betting on God's existence offers "an infinity of an infinitely
happy life"?**
- A) Pascal
- B) Kant
- C) Hume
- D) Marx
**Answer: A) Pascal**
9. **Which philosopher is known for the concept of the Eternal Recurrence or Eternal Return?**
- A) Nietzsche
- B) Hobbes
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