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

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. What does Aristotle define as the entire vital principle of any being?
(a) motion
(b) matter
(c) soul
(d) energy

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

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

5. How is Plato's early life best described?
(a) a comfortable athletic youth and a successful soldier
(b) a life of poverty and destitution
(c) a playboy and a religious fanatic
(d) an idle life and a failure as a soldier

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is one result of Aristotle's prolific output of writing?

4. What are the only three things worthwhile in Plato's ethical solution?

5. What does Aristotle establish in Athens?

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