STRAIGHTERLINE PHILOSOPHY FINAL
EXAM 2026 UPDATED QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS.
Aristotle's primary area of interest was - correct answer -metaphysics.
Which of the following is not one of the ten basic categories Aristotle used to describe
the ways in which humans think about things? - correct answer -weight
How many souls did Aristotle believe humans have? - correct answer -three
Aristotle's works include all of the following except: - correct answer -
Nicomachean Ethics
What is a thing, according to Aristotle? - correct answer -A specific form in a
particular hunk of matter.
What does Aristotle mean by the efficient cause of a thing? - correct answer -
Where it came from.
If you want to say what a thing is, which of Aristotle's four causes must you provide? -
correct answer -The formal cause.
What did Aristotle say about all change? - correct answer -It is a movement from
potentiality to actuality.
Which of the following is an example of what Aristotle called a universal? - correct
answer -The property of being red.
What is a syllogism? - correct answer -A kind of inference.
What is not true of Hinduism? - correct answer -It has no scriptures or holy
writings.
What is the central doctrine of the Upanishads? - correct answer -The identity of
Brahman and Atman.
, What is the main cause of human suffering, according to Siddhartha Gautama? -
correct answer -Ignorance and selfish craving.
Which is not a characteristic of the Tao, for Taoists? - correct answer -Man can
improve it.
According to Confucius, this principle governs both the well-ordered family and the well-
ordered state. - correct answer -The principle of the Mean.
Which would Mencius say true happiness consists in? - correct answer -Seeing
parents and family alive and well and free from anxiety.
What must one do to discover ultimate reality and truth, according to Hui Neng, sixth
patriarch of Ch'an Buddhism? - correct answer -Give up false attachments and
selfish interests.
What Mahayana Buddhist view did Murasi Shikibu object to? - correct answer -
Women must wait for reincarnation as a male before they can achieve enlightenment.
Which did Dogen Zenji advocate? - correct answer -The Parental Mind.
What do samurai warriors believe in? - correct answer -All of the above.
Why is diversity a challenge for modern feminism? - correct answer -Race, class,
and gender are tied together in ways that make working-class and minority women
disadvantaged in different ways from middle-class white women.
Why are feminist epistemologists suspicous of the concept of the ideal knower as
dispassionate, objective, and purely rational? - correct answer -This makes the
ideal knower rather like the ideal male.
According to Val Plumwood, how does the rationalistic framework view the human self?
- correct answer -As autonomous, separate, and egoistic.
According to Mary Wollstonecraft, which of the following virtues should be cultivated in
women as well as men? - correct answer -wisdom
How do feminists like Andrea Dworkin and Ctharine MacKinnon define pornography? -
correct answer -Media that both equates sex and violence against women, and
endorses it.
EXAM 2026 UPDATED QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS.
Aristotle's primary area of interest was - correct answer -metaphysics.
Which of the following is not one of the ten basic categories Aristotle used to describe
the ways in which humans think about things? - correct answer -weight
How many souls did Aristotle believe humans have? - correct answer -three
Aristotle's works include all of the following except: - correct answer -
Nicomachean Ethics
What is a thing, according to Aristotle? - correct answer -A specific form in a
particular hunk of matter.
What does Aristotle mean by the efficient cause of a thing? - correct answer -
Where it came from.
If you want to say what a thing is, which of Aristotle's four causes must you provide? -
correct answer -The formal cause.
What did Aristotle say about all change? - correct answer -It is a movement from
potentiality to actuality.
Which of the following is an example of what Aristotle called a universal? - correct
answer -The property of being red.
What is a syllogism? - correct answer -A kind of inference.
What is not true of Hinduism? - correct answer -It has no scriptures or holy
writings.
What is the central doctrine of the Upanishads? - correct answer -The identity of
Brahman and Atman.
, What is the main cause of human suffering, according to Siddhartha Gautama? -
correct answer -Ignorance and selfish craving.
Which is not a characteristic of the Tao, for Taoists? - correct answer -Man can
improve it.
According to Confucius, this principle governs both the well-ordered family and the well-
ordered state. - correct answer -The principle of the Mean.
Which would Mencius say true happiness consists in? - correct answer -Seeing
parents and family alive and well and free from anxiety.
What must one do to discover ultimate reality and truth, according to Hui Neng, sixth
patriarch of Ch'an Buddhism? - correct answer -Give up false attachments and
selfish interests.
What Mahayana Buddhist view did Murasi Shikibu object to? - correct answer -
Women must wait for reincarnation as a male before they can achieve enlightenment.
Which did Dogen Zenji advocate? - correct answer -The Parental Mind.
What do samurai warriors believe in? - correct answer -All of the above.
Why is diversity a challenge for modern feminism? - correct answer -Race, class,
and gender are tied together in ways that make working-class and minority women
disadvantaged in different ways from middle-class white women.
Why are feminist epistemologists suspicous of the concept of the ideal knower as
dispassionate, objective, and purely rational? - correct answer -This makes the
ideal knower rather like the ideal male.
According to Val Plumwood, how does the rationalistic framework view the human self?
- correct answer -As autonomous, separate, and egoistic.
According to Mary Wollstonecraft, which of the following virtues should be cultivated in
women as well as men? - correct answer -wisdom
How do feminists like Andrea Dworkin and Ctharine MacKinnon define pornography? -
correct answer -Media that both equates sex and violence against women, and
endorses it.
