University of Kansas, Fall 2006
Philosophy 148: Reason and Argument
Ben Eggleston—eggleston@ku.edu

answer key for practice test on chapters 7–9

Here is how to score your answers:

  1. Check your answers to questions 1–12 against the correct answers, and add up the points for your answers:
correct answers A A D A C B D C A I O I
question numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
points 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1

correction (sent to e-mail distribution list on Thursday, November 9): The correct answer to question 8 is E, not C.

  1. Check your answers to questions 13–23 against the correct answers, and add up the points for your answers:
correct answers E O A F D A B E B G I
question numbers 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
points 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1
  1. Check your answer to question 24 against the correct answer, and give yourself 2 points if your answer is right:

1. ~P & Q   (premise)
2. R → P   (premise)
3. Q   (1, simplification)
4. ~P   (1, simplification)
5. ~R   (2, 4, modus tollens)
6. Q & ~R   (3, 5, conjunction)

  1. Divide your total number of points earned by the total number of points possible (30), and multiply by 100 to express your raw score as a percentage.