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

2. What is a special element of soul in the human being according to Aristotle?
(a) a power to dream
(b) a power of understanding metaphysics
(c) a power of reason and thought
(d) a power to dominate

3. When does Plato return to Athens and begin to write?
(a) at the age of forty in 387 B.C.
(b) at the age of fifty in 397 B. C.
(c) at the age of thirty while touring the middle east
(d) at the age of twenty-eight when Socrates dies

4. What does Aristotle establish in Athens?
(a) a system of exchange
(b) a school of oratory
(c) a political party
(d) a scientific museum

5. At what age does Plato advocate taking children from their parents to avoid learning bad habits?
(a) at birth
(b) age ten
(c) age three
(d) at adolescence

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the King of Syracuse learn that causes him to cancel his invitation to Plato to organize Utopia?

3. What does Aristotle devise to integrate the particular with the universal?

4. What becomes the unifying element in Plato's description of justice?

5. What is lacking in Aristotle's philosophy that is so evident in Plato's?

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