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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. What does Aristotle teach at the Lyceum?
(a) the socratic Method
(b) athletics and mathematics
(c) physical and mental training
(d) biology and natural sciences

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

4. How does every society and government ruins itself?
(a) by letting down their guard
(b) by enabling excess in principle
(c) by growing tired
(d) by being too constrictive

5. Who are Francis Bacon's relative that cause it to be said that his political career began at his birth in 1561?
(a) well-placed English aristocrats
(b) aristocrats from Spain and the Netherlands
(c) pretenders to the English throne
(d) leaders of the Church of England

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does Plato return to Athens and begin to write?

3. What are two theories from the Orient that gain acceptance in Greece?

4. What do the concepts of praise or blame indicate according to Aristotle?

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

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