McqMate
These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (BA Philosophy) .
| 1. |
Religion is not mere conviction but: |
| A. | conduct |
| B. | customs |
| C. | behaviour |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. conduct | |
| 2. |
The term Religio means: |
| A. | to found |
| B. | to revel |
| C. | to bind |
| D. | to worship |
| Answer» C. to bind | |
| 3. |
The term religion comes from the Latin word: |
| A. | religoen |
| B. | religeor |
| C. | religio |
| D. | religious |
| Answer» C. religio | |
| 4. |
“The feeling, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine.” Who defined religion in this way? |
| A. | alexander |
| B. | patric |
| C. | william james |
| D. | w.t stace |
| Answer» C. william james | |
| 5. |
----------------- defines religion as, “the conservation of values.” |
| A. | alexander |
| B. | patric |
| C. | william james |
| D. | hoffoding |
| Answer» D. hoffoding | |
| 6. |
To----------------------, religion is not in doctrines, in dogmas nor in intellectual argumentation; it is being and becoming, it is realization. |
| A. | swami vivekananda |
| B. | hoffoding |
| C. | william james |
| D. | w.t stace |
| Answer» A. swami vivekananda | |
| 7. |
According to Alexander “Religion is--------------” |
| A. | faith in god |
| B. | faith in deity |
| C. | faith in nature |
| D. | faith in super power |
| Answer» B. faith in deity | |
| 8. |
According to ------------------“Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things.” |
| A. | alexander |
| B. | patric |
| C. | whitehead |
| D. | w.t stace |
| Answer» C. whitehead | |
| 9. |
To --------- “Religion is the consciousness of our practical relation to an invisible spiritual order.” |
| A. | alexander |
| B. | patric |
| C. | william james |
| D. | w.t stace |
| Answer» B. patric | |
| 10. |
W.T Stace defined “religion as the ------------------ for the impossible, the unattainable, the inconceivable.” |
| A. | hunger of the soul |
| B. | thirst of the mind |
| C. | quest of the intellect |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. hunger of the soul | |
| 11. |
According to Whitehead, “Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the ------------ of immediate things.” |
| A. | relations |
| B. | continues waves |
| C. | stream |
| D. | passing flux |
| Answer» D. passing flux | |
| 12. |
Talcott Parsons defines, religion, “-------------------------------------which men have evolved in various societies” |
| A. | values, morals and practices |
| B. | a set of myths and imaginations |
| C. | a set of beliefs, practices, and institutions |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. a set of beliefs, practices, and institutions | |
| 13. |
According to Kant “Religion is a matter of the: |
| A. | mind |
| B. | soul |
| C. | will |
| D. | intellect |
| Answer» C. will | |
| 14. |
Concise Oxford Dictionary defines; religion is “human recognition of a ----------- controlling power and especially of a personal God or gods entitled to obedience and worship” |
| A. | cosmic |
| B. | super natural |
| C. | divine |
| D. | superhuman |
| Answer» D. superhuman | |
| 15. |
Arnold says religion as, “ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by-----------------” |
| A. | willing |
| B. | feeling |
| C. | imagination |
| D. | practicing |
| Answer» B. feeling | |
| 16. |
------------------- defines, religion, “a body of scruples which impede the free exercise of our faculties” |
| A. | salomon reinach |
| B. | hoffoding |
| C. | william james |
| D. | w.t stace |
| Answer» A. salomon reinach | |
| 17. |
Who defines religion as, “ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling”? |
| A. | swami vivekananda |
| B. | hoffoding |
| C. | mathew arnold |
| D. | w.t stace |
| Answer» C. mathew arnold | |
| 18. |
---------------explains, “Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge”. |
| A. | kant |
| B. | hoffoding |
| C. | william james |
| D. | herbert spencer |
| Answer» D. herbert spencer | |
| 19. |
Not only the theist, but -----------------------can philosophize about religion. |
| A. | the spiritualist and the pragmatic |
| B. | the spiritualist and the pragmatic |
| C. | the atheist and the agnostic |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. the atheist and the agnostic | |
| 20. |
Herbert Spencer explains, “Religion is the humanity’s response to the --------------------.” |
| A. | divine |
| B. | personal god |
| C. | superhuman |
| D. | super power |
| Answer» A. divine | |
| 21. |
The relation between religion and philosophy is ------------- |
| A. | most contradictory |
| B. | most controversial |
| C. | most intimate |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. most intimate | |
| 22. |
Both ----------------------raise the life of man and society to a higher and nobler level |
| A. | science and art |
| B. | science and wealth |
| C. | philosophy and religion |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. philosophy and religion | |
| 23. |
Religious experience cannot be explained by ----------- |
| A. | intellect |
| B. | figures |
| C. | symbols |
| D. | analogy |
| Answer» A. intellect | |
| 24. |
--------------------------- is an intellectual and logical interpretation of religious experience. |
| A. | theology |
| B. | religion |
| C. | philosophy of religion |
| D. | religious experience |
| Answer» C. philosophy of religion | |
| 25. |
Philosophy of religion studies the concepts, propositions and arguments of : |
| A. | theologians |
| B. | priests |
| C. | religious practitioners |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. theologians | |
| 26. |
Hegel identified religion with the --------------------------of philosophy |
| A. | pure teleological notions |
| B. | pure ontological notions |
| C. | pure instrumental notions |
| D. | pure intellectual notions |
| Answer» D. pure intellectual notions | |
| 27. |
The philosophy of religion is not an organ of -----------------. |
| A. | religious teaching |
| B. | religious theories |
| C. | religious analysis |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. religious teaching | |
| 28. |
Philosophy of religion generally committed on: |
| A. | reason |
| B. | intellect |
| C. | will |
| D. | emotion |
| Answer» A. reason | |
| 29. |
The philosophy of religion is based on ------------- as the fundamental principle of knowledge. |
| A. | realism |
| B. | pluralism |
| C. | idealism |
| D. | monism |
| Answer» C. idealism | |
| 30. |
--------------------------can be stated and verified through symbols, figures and visions. |
| A. | religious theories |
| B. | religious experiences |
| C. | religious explanations |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. religious experiences | |
| 31. |
----------- can very well help us to reject superstitions and blind belief from the religion. |
| A. | reason |
| B. | intellect |
| C. | will |
| D. | experience |
| Answer» A. reason | |
| 32. |
---------------is the core of philosophy of religion. |
| A. | rituals |
| B. | religious practice |
| C. | religious theories |
| D. | spirituality |
| Answer» D. spirituality | |
| 33. |
The -----------------------is the aim of philosophy of religion. |
| A. | spiritual realization |
| B. | god realisation |
| C. | liberation |
| D. | freedom |
| Answer» A. spiritual realization | |
| 34. |
------- seeks to raise religious doctrine to a philosophical form by exercising a free criticism upon them. |
| A. | theology |
| B. | speculative theology |
| C. | neo-theology |
| D. | propositional theology |
| Answer» B. speculative theology | |
| 35. |
Theologians seeks to unfold a world-view, based on: |
| A. | religious experience |
| B. | religious beliefs |
| C. | religious dogmas |
| D. | religious postulates |
| Answer» D. religious postulates | |
| 36. |
Science and religion generally pursue knowledge of the ---------- using different methodologies |
| A. | mind |
| B. | sprit |
| C. | soul |
| D. | universe |
| Answer» D. universe | |
| 37. |
Which theory states that God is existing apart from the world? |
| A. | pantheism |
| B. | deism |
| C. | monotheism |
| D. | theism |
| Answer» B. deism | |
| 38. |
Deists believed that God is the: |
| A. | cause uie |
| B. | cause |
| C. | cause sui |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. cause uie | |
| 39. |
According to Deism, God exists beyond -------------- |
| A. | matter |
| B. | heaven |
| C. | human |
| D. | time and space. |
| Answer» D. time and space. | |
| 40. |
Pantheism comes from Greek terms : |
| A. | ‘pan’ and ‘theo’ |
| B. | ‘ pon’ and ‘teo’ |
| C. | ‘paan’ and ‘theeo’ |
| D. | ‘pen’ and ‘teeo’ |
| Answer» A. ‘pan’ and ‘theo’ | |
| 41. |
Pantheism literally means that: |
| A. | all is spirit |
| B. | god is great |
| C. | all is god |
| D. | all is world |
| Answer» C. all is god | |
| 42. |
‘The world is God, and God is the world’- this view is called: |
| A. | pantheism |
| B. | deism |
| C. | monotheism |
| D. | theism |
| Answer» A. pantheism | |
| 43. |
According to -------------- , God is Substance and Substance is God |
| A. | descartes |
| B. | aquinas |
| C. | spinoza |
| D. | kant |
| Answer» C. spinoza | |
| 44. |
-----------------form of Idealism is Pantheistic in character. |
| A. | cartesian |
| B. | hegelian |
| C. | kantian |
| D. | all of these |
| Answer» B. hegelian | |
| 45. |
Nothing falls outside the Absolute and everything is the Absolute. Who holds this view? |
| A. | spinoza |
| B. | kant |
| C. | william james |
| D. | hegel |
| Answer» D. hegel | |
| 46. |
The Upanishadic saying “aham Brahmasmi” and “sarvam khalavidam Brahma” having a similarity with: |
| A. | pantheism |
| B. | deism |
| C. | monotheism |
| D. | theism |
| Answer» A. pantheism | |
| 47. |
----------------------is the belief that there is but one supreme Being, |
| A. | pantheism |
| B. | deism |
| C. | monotheism |
| D. | theism |
| Answer» C. monotheism | |
| 48. |
God is personal and moral and who seeks a total and unqualified response from human creatures- This view is related with: |
| A. | pantheism |
| B. | deism |
| C. | monotheism |
| D. | theism |
| Answer» C. monotheism | |
| 49. |
--------------was not only the God of the Hebrews but the Maker of heaven and earth. |
| A. | jahweh |
| B. | ahura masda |
| C. | chemosh |
| D. | dagon |
| Answer» A. jahweh | |
| 50. |
------------------ believes that God is the highest personality, the creator, supporter and defender of the world. |
| A. | pantheism |
| B. | deism |
| C. | monotheism |
| D. | theism |
| Answer» D. theism | |
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