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

2. Significantly, who gets ignored in Bacon's utopia?
(a) proponents of the New Atlantis
(b) Copernicus and other scientists
(c) Hobbes, Locke, and Bentham
(d) Plato and Socrates

3. What does Aristotle say is the need of Motion?
(a) matter
(b) a reason
(c) a place to happen
(d) a source

4. Eventually what does Alexander's conquests in Asia open up to the Greeks?
(a) important trade routes
(b) Eastern monotheism
(c) cults and superstitious faiths
(d) lavish lifestyles

5. How old is Francis Bacon when he resolves to turn philosophy from scholastic arguments to illumination and increase of human good?
(a) age thirty
(b) age fifty
(c) age twenty-four
(d) age sixteen

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the only three things worthwhile in Plato's ethical solution?

2. Reducing everything through the Socratic Method, what do Socrates and Cephalus agree to discuss?

3. What is the foundation of Plato's Republic?

4. Why is Bacon often accused of being atheistic?

5. What student of Aristotle becomes a major historical figure?

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