Comprehensive Matching Questions
Dale Larson
Grays Harbor College
Examinations in Philosophy 100 include "Comprehensive Matching" questions.
They test your ability to match related information, placing authors, texts,
ideas, and inferences in larger categories. Here with colors serving as
categories is a sample set.
You will find from six to eight categories on our tests. I've specified
only four here. To suggest what sort of thinking is required in studying,
I've left two answers unspecified. Directions come from our tests.
Part One — Comprehensive Matching: In the spaces beside each
word below, write from the following lists one number best matching an
item from each successive list. You will have in the relevant spaces, therefore,
a comprehensive number — say, 4251 — identifying each best item
in succession. An answer in each list is "wild." (16 points)
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B |
C |
D |
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B |
C |
D |
| Red |
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Blue |
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| Yellow |
______ |
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______ |
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Orange |
______ |
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______ |
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A-List |
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B-List |
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Associated with fast cars |
1. |
January 1st football game |
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Juice |
2. |
The temperature of ice |
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The Scent of a Woman |
3. |
To be in financial debt |
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C-List |
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D-List |
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Virtual reality |
1. |
A "cardinal" color |
| 2. |
Synonymous with communism |
2. |
Names a fruit |
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Not a primary color |
3. |
Ultra form invisibile |
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