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

2. What does Plato say is a science and art one must live and prepare for?
(a) teaching the young
(b) military leadership
(c) statesmanship
(d) oratory

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

4. What biological notion does Aristotle reject?
(a) vegetarianism
(b) extinction of species
(c) evolution of species
(d) survival of the fittest

5. What does Democritus claim that Aristotle disagrees with?
(a) there is no such thing as soul
(b) the soul is temporary
(c) the soul is material
(d) the soul is imaginary

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Plato say early education should do?

2. At his birth in 384 B.C., into what kind of family is Aristotle born?

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

4. What is Aristotle's foundation of logic?

5. To what end does Socrates develop his Socratic Method?

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