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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, the Postcards, Chapter 14, Two Cultures.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Anaxagoras, what are seeds?
(a) Potential of ideas.
(b) Grass and food for humans.
(c) Infinitely divisible particles.
(d) The young of a group.

2. What does Plato believe human beings get caught in?
(a) The darkness of day-to-day perception.
(b) Work and money struggles.
(c) Confusion over Gods.
(d) Abuse and neglect of the young.

3. How does Empedocles try to organize the world?
(a) Around the four basic elements.
(b) With people at the top of the hierarchy.
(c) In tiers according to age and gender.
(d) By historical facts.

4. What do the envelopes have in common?
(a) Both are blue.
(b) Both are typed.
(c) Neither are glued shut.
(d) Neither has stamps.

5. What does Sophie's dad do for a living?
(a) A captain on an oil tanker.
(b) Mechanic.
(c) CPA.
(d) Grocer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Plato believe is immortal?

2. What tool does the God Thor use?

3. What do philosophers keep that babies have and adults lose?

4. What does Anaximenes believe that everything comes from ?

5. What is the Greeks' criticism of Nordic Gods?

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