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Self Test A on Knowledge & Vocabulary associated with Choice #9  

Respond to each of the 10 multiple choice questions below by typing the number 1 to 5 of the answer you wish to select in the response box. When finished, click "process your responses".

1. Based on a careful reading of it, which of the following beliefs is most strongly linked to someone for whom the VITALISM theme is a key component of their overall worldview ? 

1) in a life force                                  2) in free will                               3) in gradual change known as evolution   

4)  in matter / energy equivalence           5) in a "Blind Watch Maker"

2.  The term “structural coupling” in the last sentence of the SCIENTIFIC MATERIALISM  theme can be inferred to be related to the meaning of the word _____________________.

1) heterogeneous       2)  random          3) yield           4) feedback               5) dynamic

3. According to someone for whom the SCIENTIFIC MATERIALISM  theme is a key component of their overall worldview, all of the following processes were involved in producing life on Earth today except which one? 

1) a divine spark                                2) gradual change known as evolution                         3) random chance    

4) forces acting on matter                 5)  physical and chemical processes that ultimately produced DNA

4.  Select the ordered pair that best completes this sentence: “Most fundamentally two quite different people—one who embraces  SCIENTIFIC MATERIALISM, the other subscribing to VITALISM—would disagree as to whether what humans call _________________ is confined to the _______________ or as has a separate  existence as a vital (living) spirit.  

1) physicalism,  brain                2) physicalism, mind                                 3) spirituality, brain   

4) spirituality, mind                     5) physicalism,  body

5. The word ______________ can be defined or described as "happening in no particular order, but rather in haphazard seemingly by chance fashion ."

1)   heterogeneous                                   2) random                                3)  ethereal 

4)  anachronism                                       5) enigmatic 

  

6. The word ______________ can be defined or described as "visual paranormal appearance,  suggesting appearance of someone  dead;  a ghost."

1)    random                                   2)   ethereal                              3)    seance

4)  heterogeneous                              5)   apparition  

  

7.  The word ______________ can be defined or described as "light, airy, delicate, made of a heavenly substance."

1) heterogeneous                          2)   seance                              3) apparition  

4) ethereal                                     5) random

 

8. The word ______________ can be defined or described as "a meeting to communicate with the spirits of dead people."

1)  seance                           2) apparition                                3) ethereal  

4)  ethereal                         5) manifestation 

    

9.  The word ______________ can be defined or described as "varied, diverse, not uniform, not homogeneous."

1)  apparition                                      2)  yield                                3) homeopathy   

4)    heterogeneous                             5) random

  

10.  The word ______________ can be defined or described as "the amount of the material product produced."

1)  divination                      2)   ethereal                              3) yield  

4)   qualification                 5)  empirical 

  

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