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

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

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

4. How is Plato's early life best described?
(a) a life of poverty and destitution
(b) a comfortable athletic youth and a successful soldier
(c) an idle life and a failure as a soldier
(d) a playboy and a religious fanatic

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aristotle teach at the Lyceum?

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

3. What do the concepts of praise or blame indicate according to Aristotle?

4. What is a special element of soul in the human being according to Aristotle?

5. When does Plato return to Athens and begin to write?

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