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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Bacon suggest should be observed similar to Machiavellian philosophy?
(a) the futility of the aristocratic form of government
(b) how to discipline the masses
(c) what men do rather than what they should do
(d) who has the most power

3. What does Aristotle establish in Athens?
(a) a scientific museum
(b) a school of oratory
(c) a system of exchange
(d) a political party

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

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 of understanding metaphysics
(c) a power to dominate
(d) a power to dream

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aristotle devise to integrate the particular with the universal?

2. What does the King of Syracuse learn that causes him to cancel his invitation to Plato to organize Utopia?

3. What is the foundation of Plato's Republic?

4. What does Plato say early education should do?

5. Like Aristotle, what does Bacon see needs to be removed to avoid revolution?

(see the answer key)

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