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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 student of Aristotle becomes a major historical figure?
(a) Ulysses
(b) Alexander the Great
(c) Philip of Macedon
(d) Julius Caesar

2. What is the foundation of Plato's Republic?
(a) creating contributing classes of people
(b) destroying individuality for an idealized state
(c) putting the state in a subservient position
(d) allowing individuality to flourish

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

4. What does Aristotle define as the entire vital principle of any being?
(a) matter
(b) motion
(c) energy
(d) soul

5. At his birth in 384 B.C., into what kind of family is Aristotle born?
(a) a medical family
(b) a family of philosophers
(c) a military family
(d) a family of travelers

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Aristotle's foundation of logic?

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

4. How is Plato's early life best described?

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

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