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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) Philip of Macedon
(b) Alexander the Great
(c) Ulysses
(d) Julius Caesar

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

3. What do the concepts of praise or blame indicate according to Aristotle?
(a) a way of avoiding responsibility
(b) the need for athletic contests
(c) moral responsibility and free will
(d) disagreements in society

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aristotle teach at the Lyceum?

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

3. What does Democritus claim that Aristotle disagrees with?

4. What question does Plato raise to lead into a discussion of Utopia?

5. What is said to change Plato's life?

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