View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Section VI, Savoir Faire, The New Learning: Part Two, Examples of Civilization, Books.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What important structures are discussed in "Examples of Civilization?"
(a) Religious.
(b) Cultural.
(c) Political.
(d) Architectural.

2. What type of people are the subject of "Sophists?"
(a) Psychologists.
(b) Philosophers.
(c) Physicians.
(d) Painters.

3. What is the first sort of idea addressed in "The New Learning Part One?"
(a) Ideas that do not actually exist.
(b) Ideas that guide action and serve as rules of conduct.
(c) Ideas that exist and are discussed in a vacuum.
(d) Ideas that are meant to lead culture to evolve.

4. What recent social encyclical comments on economic matters?
(a) Anglicanorum Coetibus.
(b) Annus Horribilius.
(c) Quadrigesimo Anno.
(d) Summorum Pontificum.

5. The author ends "The History of Philosophy Is ...?" with the claim that discoveries are made by whom?
(a) The studious.
(b) Uneducated and the unenlightened.
(c) Gluttons and addicts.
(d) The lucky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author see as swiftness in a given field?

2. What kind of minds are of great value, especially in a rotted milieu?

3. What percentage of the time should one not respond to criticisms of one's artwork?

4. How many essays are contained in Section I?

5. What essay is noted by the author to be dry, but that something worthwhile can come from reading it?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 213 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample