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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who eventually dominates Greek philosophy and government?
(a) the invading Persians
(b) the fierce Spartans
(c) the Macedonians Aristotle and Alexander
(d) the libertarians

2. How old is Francis Bacon when he resolves to turn philosophy from scholastic arguments to illumination and increase of human good?
(a) age twenty-four
(b) age thirty
(c) age sixteen
(d) age fifty

3. What event makes the rival schools of Stoicism and Epicureanism split philosophically?
(a) the disintegration of public infrastructures
(b) the resurgance of Judaism
(c) the Romans' arrival in 46 B.C.
(d) the arrival of missionaries from the East

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

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

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. What does the King of Syracuse learn that causes him to cancel his invitation to Plato to organize Utopia?

4. What does Aristotle devise to integrate the particular with the universal?

5. Why is Bacon often accused of being atheistic?

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