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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What method do all the fields of study--science, discipline, art and music--use in common?
(a) repetition of basics
(b) the art of logic
(c) questions and answers
(d) rote memorization

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates ask Cephalus to define?

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

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

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

5. Who are Francis Bacon's relative that cause it to be said that his political career began at his birth in 1561?

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