QUESTION 1. The birthplace of philosophy was where?
Athens
Rome
London
Miletus
QUESTION 2. Which philosopher was the first to advance the study of mathematics?
Aristotle
Plato
Pythagoras
Miletus
QUESTION 3. Who said "Man is the measure of all things?"
Sophists
Protagoras
Socrates
Gorgias
QUESTION 4. Which philosopher was accused of and eventually executed for being an atheist?
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Protagoras
QUESTION 5. Which philosopher wrote the great philosophical work The Republic?
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Protagoras
QUESTION 6. Plato described the soul as having three parts. What were they?
Reason, Spirit, appetite
Body, soul, spirit
Body, reason, and appetite
Appetite, soul, and spirit
QUESTION 7. The name of Aristotle's school in Athens was named what?
The Apollos
The Lyceum
The Library
The Peripatos
QUESTION 8. What is the central concern of metaphysics?
The study of the body
The study of substance
The study of the afterlife
The study of biology
QUESTION 9. Plato presents his view of reality in his allegory of the cave, which describes how many of us live in a world of false beliefs and the painful process of gaining true knowledge.
True
False
QUESTION 10. Aristotle argued that people are not morally responsible for involuntary acts insofar as they are done out of ignorance of particular circumstances, done as a result of external compulsion, or done to avoid a greater evil
True
False