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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What student of Aristotle becomes a major historical figure?
(a) Ulysses
(b) Philip of Macedon
(c) Julius Caesar
(d) Alexander the Great

3. What new philosophy uses faith and reason to force acceptance of untried assumptions and conclusions?
(a) Activism
(b) Fundamentalism
(c) Martialism
(d) Scholasticism

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

5. To what end does Socrates develop his Socratic Method?
(a) to open a private university
(b) to perfom biological experiments
(c) to impress the multitudes
(d) to test the assumptions of his pupils

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates ask Cephalus to define?

2. What comprises Plato's writing style?

3. What does Aristotle teach at the Lyceum?

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

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

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