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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Like Aristotle, what does Bacon see needs to be removed to avoid revolution?
(a) the right to bear arms
(b) issues that cause poverty and discontent
(c) the ownership of private property
(d) the right to vote

2. When is Plato born?
(a) in the first century B. C.
(b) in the second century B. C.
(c) Ca 400 B. C.
(d) in the fourth century B.C.

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

4. What are the only three things worthwhile in Plato's ethical solution?
(a) travel, study, rhetoric
(b) beauty, athleticism, education
(c) philosophy, music, poetry
(d) justice, truth, beauty

5. What does Socrates ask Cephalus to define?
(a) the best form of government
(b) the blessing he receives from education
(c) the greatest blessing he receives from wealth
(d) the meaning of the word moral

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way is Bacon's reconstruction thought superior to that of Aristotle?

2. Eventually what does Alexander's conquests in Asia open up to the Greeks?

3. How old is Francis Bacon when he resolves to turn philosophy from scholastic arguments to illumination and increase of human good?

4. What does Plato say is a science and art one must live and prepare for?

5. What does Aristotle say is the need of Motion?

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