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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Although science and philosophy exists in Greece before their times, who were the teachers who greatly advanced the fields?
(a) Aristotle and Onassis
(b) Aristotle and Socrates
(c) Socrates and Plato
(d) Playto and Prothagorus

2. In what way is Bacon's reconstruction thought superior to that of Aristotle?
(a) more practical than theoretical
(b) less idealistic and more severe
(c) more flexible for the people
(d) less detailed, evolving slowly

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

4. What does Democritus claim that Aristotle disagrees with?
(a) the soul is temporary
(b) there is no such thing as soul
(c) the soul is imaginary
(d) the soul is material

5. What is Aristotle's foundation of logic?
(a) the art and method of correct thinking
(b) the art of listening
(c) the way to ask Socratic questions
(d) the way to make a syllogysm

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the students of Socrates?

2. At his birth in 384 B.C., into what kind of family is Aristotle born?

3. How does every society and government ruins itself?

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

5. What philosopher and statesman does Francis Bacon aspire to be like?

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