Test Bank and Instructor’s Manual Introducing Philosophy, Eleventh Edition by Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M.

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, Test Bank and Instructor’s Manual
Introducing Philosophy, Eleventh Edition
by Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. Higgins, &
Clancy Martin




Table of Contents




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,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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