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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Francis Bacon.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aristotle teach at the Lyceum?
(a) physical and mental training
(b) biology and natural sciences
(c) athletics and mathematics
(d) the socratic Method

2. How is Plato's early life best described?
(a) a life of poverty and destitution
(b) a playboy and a religious fanatic
(c) an idle life and a failure as a soldier
(d) a comfortable athletic youth and a successful soldier

3. Who are the students of Socrates?
(a) the leaders of the athenian democracy
(b) the sons of the Athenian elite
(c) a mixed group of young learned men
(d) misfits of society

4. What does Socrates ask Cephalus to define?
(a) the blessing he receives from education
(b) the greatest blessing he receives from wealth
(c) the meaning of the word moral
(d) the best form of government

5. What event makes the rival schools of Stoicism and Epicureanism split philosophically?
(a) the disintegration of public infrastructures
(b) the resurgance of Judaism
(c) the Romans' arrival in 46 B.C.
(d) the arrival of missionaries from the East

Short Answer Questions

1. At his birth in 384 B.C., into what kind of family is Aristotle born?

2. Although science and philosophy exists in Greece before their times, who were the teachers who greatly advanced the fields?

3. What comprises Plato's writing style?

4. What is said to change Plato's life?

5. What does Bacon suggest should be observed similar to Machiavellian philosophy?

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