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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is a meeting held to discuss the Republic?
(a) at the Acropolis
(b) at the house of a wealthy aristocrat, Cephalus
(c) in the Parthenon
(d) at the Lyceum

3. Reducing everything through the Socratic Method, what do Socrates and Cephalus agree to discuss?
(a) the meaning of war
(b) the meaning of philosophy
(c) the meaning of justice
(d) the meaning of happiness

4. What does the King of Syracuse learn that causes him to cancel his invitation to Plato to organize Utopia?
(a) that he will have to work for a living
(b) that he must share his wealth
(c) that Plato is unpopular in Athens
(d) that he must leave his throne

5. What is said to change Plato's life?
(a) his meeting with Socrates
(b) his defection from the army
(c) his friendship with Philip of Macedon
(d) his time spent in Egypt

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aristotle teach at the Lyceum?

2. Where do metaphysics and the nature of God fit into Aristotle's curriculum?

3. Although science and philosophy exists in Greece before their times, who were the teachers who greatly advanced the fields?

4. What comprises Plato's writing style?

5. What does Democritus claim that Aristotle disagrees with?

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