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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Francis Bacon.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do metaphysics and the nature of God fit into Aristotle's curriculum?
(a) his rhetoric
(b) his biology
(c) his mathematics
(d) his theology

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

3. How old is Francis Bacon when he resolves to turn philosophy from scholastic arguments to illumination and increase of human good?
(a) age sixteen
(b) age thirty
(c) age fifty
(d) age twenty-four

4. Like Aristotle, what does Bacon see needs to be removed to avoid revolution?
(a) the ownership of private property
(b) issues that cause poverty and discontent
(c) the right to vote
(d) the right to bear arms

5. When is Plato born?
(a) in the fourth century B.C.
(b) in the second century B. C.
(c) in the first century B. C.
(d) Ca 400 B. C.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Aristotle say is the need of Motion?

3. Eventually what does Alexander's conquests in Asia open up to the Greeks?

4. Significantly, who gets ignored in Bacon's utopia?

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

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