Quiz: Critique of Judgment

All 50 questions. A perfect score earns the gold medal; 80% earns silver.

1. 1. When is judgement “reflective” rather than determinant?

   When reason gives a moral law to the will When only the particular is given and the universal must be found When both the particular and the universal come from experience When the universal is given and the particular is subsumed under it
2. 2. According to the Second Moment, the beautiful is that which…

   pleases through the concept of its purpose pleases the senses in sensation is useful for some end pleases universally, without a concept
3. 3. Which example does Kant use to show that mechanism and purpose cannot both explain the same product?

   A crystal A blade of grass A watch A maggot
4. 4. What does Kant say a long peace generally brings about?

   A deeper and more widely shared feeling for the sublime Universal enlightenment and the decline of superstition A revival of religious fanaticism A commercial spirit, with selfishness and cowardice
5. 5. What did the Savoyard peasant reported by Saussure call lovers of snow-mountains?

   Fools Philosophers Saints Heroes
6. 6. What does Kant call judgement’s giving a law to itself rather than to nature?

   Heautonomy Spontaneity Hypotyposis Heteronomy
7. 7. What does Kant say first produces the concept of God, as distinct from gods?

   The study of comparative anatomy and natural history Reason, by means of its moral principles The beauty and order of nature, admired by all peoples Fear
8. 8. Why does Kant say hylozoism fails?

   Matter is too complex for any single principle to explain it Hylozoism was refuted by Newton’s optics Living matter is a contradiction, since lifelessness (inertia) is the essential character of matter Hylozoism denies that organisms exist at all
9. 9. What does Kant call the purposiveness of a natural thing as a means for other beings?

   Inner purposiveness, as in organised beings Subjective purposiveness Relative purposiveness, or utility Formal purposiveness, as in beautiful forms
10. 10. What example does Kant use to show that art, as skill, differs from knowledge?

    A watchmaker who cannot explain the laws of motion Newton’s inability to write poetry A bee building cells without a plan Camper could describe exactly how the best shoes must be made but could not make one
11. 11. Which three faculties of the soul does the Introduction name?

    Sense, imagination, memory and the power of association Cognition, the feeling of pleasure and pain, and desire Intuition, concept and Idea Perception, passion and habit, the three sources of all belief
12. 12. Why does Kant deny that Newton was a genius in his sense?

    Because every step of Newton’s work can be made plain and learned by others Because science has no room for imagination Because Newton’s discoveries were later shown to be wrong Because Newton merely imitated the ancient geometers
13. 13. Which faculty does the Preface call the mediating link between Understanding and Reason?

    Sensibility Memory Judgement Imagination
14. 14. What does Kant identify as the ultimate purpose of nature in respect of the human race?

    Culture Dominion over the animals Happiness Population growth
15. 15. According to § 83, how is skill developed in the human race?

    Through an equal education provided for all by the state Through inequality among men Through the free gifts of a beneficent nature Through the abolition of luxury
16. 16. What example does Kant give of a “free formation” of nature produced mechanically?

    The freezing of water, whose needles combine at angles of 60° The growth of a tree from its seed by assimilating foreign matter The building of cells by bees The plumage of the pheasant
17. 17. Besides the Doryphorus of Polycletus, which work does Kant say could serve as the rule for its kind?

    Phidias’s Zeus Myron’s Cow The Laocoön The Apollo Belvedere
18. 18. What did Marsden find attractive when he came on it in the middle of a Sumatran forest?

    A ring of tall trees round a lawn A waterfall in the Alpine forests A pepper-garden in parallel rows A ruined temple overgrown with ivy
19. 19. Who, according to Kant, won “immortal honour” by developing the physico-teleological argument?

    Linnaeus Blumenbach Moses Mendelssohn Reimarus
20. 20. How may someone rightly correct the statement “Canary wine is pleasant”?

    “It is good for your health” “It is beautiful for everyone” “It is sublime and grand” “It is pleasant to me”
21. 21. How did the merry host deceive his guests in Kant’s example about natural beauty?

    By placing carved and painted birds among the branches of his trees By hiding a boy in a bush to imitate a nightingale By painting a landscape on his walls By planting artificial flowers among the real ones in his garden
22. 22. What does Kant say it is absurd to hope for?

    A Newton who could explain a blade of grass by natural laws no design has ordered A proof that God exists from the motions of the planets A chemistry that could turn crude matter into gold A mathematics of the beautiful that would settle every dispute of taste by proofs
23. 23. Which of these does Kant give as a free beauty?

    A horse A church The human figure Flowers
24. 24. How does Kant define genius in § 46?

    The capacity to learn and apply the rules of an art faster than others The taste needed to judge beautiful objects rightly and finely The innate talent through which nature gives the rule to art The ability to make great scientific discoveries without a teacher
25. 25. Which art does Kant rank first among all the arts?

    Music Painting Poetry Architecture
26. 26. Which Idea of pure reason does Kant count as a “thing of fact”?

    Freedom God’s existence Immortality The world-whole
27. 27. What does Kant say he will do now that the critical undertaking is ended?

    Proceed to the doctrinal part of his system Revise the Critique of Pure Reason once more for a third edition Write a critique of history and of the progress of the human race Give up philosophy for the study of natural science
28. 28. What does Kant conclude from the man alone on a desert island?

    Taste is an instinct independent of other people Solitude is the best condition for judging nature Empirically, interest in the beautiful arises only in society Beauty is a property of objects themselves
29. 29. What does the second maxim of the antinomy of teleological judgement state?

    Some products of material nature cannot be judged possible by merely mechanical laws Material nature as a whole must be judged as a single living animal No product of nature can be judged at all without the concept of God All production of material things must be judged possible by merely mechanical laws
30. 30. Whom does Kant name as an example of a righteous man persuaded that there is no God?

    Reimarus Rousseau Spinoza Epicurus
31. 31. According to § 2, what alone pleased the Iroquois sachem in Paris?

    The opera The palaces The royal gardens The cook-shops
32. 32. Which natural thing does Kant use to illustrate a being that is cause and effect of itself?

    A watch A river A tree A crystal
33. 33. How does Kant treat the system of “casuality” ascribed to Epicurus or Democritus?

    As identical with Spinoza’s system of fatality As the best available explanation of organisms As so plainly absurd that it need not detain us As the system that rescues purposiveness from Idealism
34. 34. On the reading Kant takes from Linnaeus, what is man’s role?

    To serve as food for beasts of prey To be fed by the vegetable kingdom alone To contemplate creation as its sole final purpose To keep an equilibrium between the producing and destructive powers of nature
35. 35. Why, according to Kant, is a watch not an organised being?

    Its parts are made of dead metal rather than of living organic matter It was not made according to any purpose or concept of an end It is too simple in structure to be judged beautiful or sublime Its parts do not produce one another, nor can it repair or reproduce itself
36. 36. What “ray of hope” does comparative anatomy offer, according to § 80?

    That anatomy will prove each species was created separately by God That a common schema of animals hints at descent from a common parent That fossils prove the earth is only a few thousand years old That the human body can be explained without any reference to purposes
37. 37. What is Kant’s verdict on physico-theology?

    A complete and adequate proof of a wise, moral and all-powerful Author of the world A misunderstood physical teleology, useful only as a propaedeutic to theology Identical with ethico-theology Mere superstition, with no use at all for either science or theology
38. 38. What is the thesis of the antinomy of taste?

    The judgement of taste is not based on concepts, for otherwise it could be settled by proofs The judgement of taste is based on concepts, for otherwise we could not quarrel about it Beauty is a property of objects in themselves Every one has his own taste
39. 39. In Kant’s example of symbolic presentation, what symbolises a state governed by an absolute individual will?

    A beehive A watch A living body A hand-mill
40. 40. Whom does Kant credit with contributing most to the theory of epigenesis?

    Linnaeus Charles Bonnet Blumenbach Albrecht von Haller
41. 41. Which of these is not one of the three maxims of common human understanding in § 40?

    To put ourselves in thought in the place of everyone else To follow the judgement of the majority Always to think consistently To think for oneself
42. 42. According to § 59, of what is the beautiful the symbol?

    The agreeable in sense The sublime The morally good Divine perfection
43. 43. What does Kant say a young poet does when the public disagrees with his verdict on his own poem?

    He appeals to the rules of the ancient critics to prove that his poem is beautiful He at once revises his judgement to agree with the majority, since taste is a matter of consensus He may outwardly yield to the public’s error without changing his judgement He abandons poetry for science
44. 44. Who, according to § 16, adorn a figure with spirals and regular lines?

    The Chinese, on their painted porcelain The ancient Greeks, on their vases The Iroquois, by painting their faces The New Zealanders, by tattooing
45. 45. Which passage of the Jewish Law does Kant call perhaps the most sublime?

    The command to honour one’s father and mother The law of the jubilee year The command to keep the Sabbath day holy The command against making graven images
46. 46. According to Savary, how should one view the Pyramids to feel the full effect of their size?

    From the very summit of the largest From as far away as one can see them Neither too near nor too far By moonlight, from the desert’s edge
47. 47. How does an intuitive understanding differ from ours?

    It does not proceed from the universal to the particular through concepts It is the understanding of animals, guided by instinct It relies entirely on sense perception and has no concepts It can only think mechanically, never in terms of purposes
48. 48. Which writer does Kant cite for the remark that critics can reason more plausibly than cooks, yet share their fate?

    Lessing Burke Hume Batteux
49. 49. Which of these is not among the maxims of judgement quoted in section V?

    Nature takes the shortest way Principles are not to be multiplied beyond necessity Nature makes no leaps Nature always produces what is beautiful
50. 50. How does Kant define laughter?

    The sudden transformation of a strained expectation into nothing A reaction to the sublime in nature The pleasure of recognising a truth A feeling of sudden glory and superiority over the person laughed at