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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Aristotle and Greek Science.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the only three things worthwhile in Plato's ethical solution?
(a) travel, study, rhetoric
(b) beauty, athleticism, education
(c) justice, truth, beauty
(d) philosophy, music, poetry

2. What does Plato say early education should do?
(a) teach logistics
(b) indoctrinate
(c) only amuse
(d) form good habits

3. How does every society and government ruins itself?
(a) by being too constrictive
(b) by letting down their guard
(c) by enabling excess in principle
(d) by growing tired

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

5. Reducing everything through the Socratic Method, what do Socrates and Cephalus agree to discuss?
(a) the meaning of philosophy
(b) the meaning of justice
(c) the meaning of war
(d) the meaning of happiness

Short Answer Questions

1. When is Plato born?

2. What method do all the fields of study--science, discipline, art and music--use in common?

3. What does Democritus claim that Aristotle disagrees with?

4. Where do metaphysics and the nature of God fit into Aristotle's curriculum?

5. What does Plato say is a science and art one must live and prepare for?

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