Greek Philosophy Quiz
47 questions
1.
Which of the following philosophers was the first philosopher?
a. Heraclitus
b. Thales
c. Plato
d. Parmenides
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Which of the following philosophers held that "All is Water"?
a. Parmenides
b. Plato
c. Heraclitus
d. Thales
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Which of the following philosophers believed that "Number" was the essence of
reality?
a. Pythagoras
b. Socrates
c. Heraclitus
d. Thales
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Which of the following philosophers believed that "All is Change"?
a. Heraclitus
b. Thales
c. Pythagoras
d. Socrates
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Socrates was most concerned with
a. the health of the soul.
b. the origin of the universe.
c. the nature of Zeus.
d. proving God's existence.
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Which of the following philosophers was Socrates' biographer?
a. Heraclitus
b. Plato
c. Parmenides
d. Thales
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Who was one of the teachers of Alexander the Great?
a. Aristotle
b. Pythagoras
c. Socrates
d. Parmenides
8.
The sayings of _____ were so mysterious he was known as "The Dark."
a. Plato
b. Heraclitus
c. Parmenides
d. Thales
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_____ was noted for, among many other things, the ability to drink all night and not
become drunk.
a. Aristotle
b. Parmenides
c. Socrates
d. Pythagoras
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_____ established a geometrical theorem which states general truths about right
triangles.
a. Pythagoras
b. Aristotle
c. Socrates
d. Parmenides
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Which of the following beliefs are consistent with the views of Heraclitus?
a. God never changes.
b. It is impossible to know the nature of reality.
c. You can't step into the same river twice.
d. Matter is unchanging.
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Which of the following philosophers believed that motion is an illusion?
a. Thales
b. Plato
c. Heraclitus
d. Parmenides
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Both Plato and Socrates lived in _____.
a. Miletus
b. Athens
c. Rome
d. Sparta
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Which of the following philosophers spent his days questioning his fellow citizens
about their beliefs?
a. Thales
b. Aristotle
c. Socrates
d. Plato
20.
Heraclitus' symbol for constant universal change, the Logos, was
a. Water.
b. Air.
c. none of these choices.
d. Earth.
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_____ is the study of the nature of reality.
a. Epistemology
b. Ethics
c. Metaphysics
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_____ is the study of the nature of the knowledge process.
a. Metaphysics
b. Ethics
c. Epistemology
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_____ involves the study of the nature of morality.
a. Epistemology
b. Metaphysics
c. Ethics
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According to _____, the earth floats on water.
a. Thales
b. Parmenides
c. Pythagoras
d. Socrates
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_____ gave his followers the strange advice, "don't eat beans."
a. Aristotle
b. Parmenides
c. Socrates
d. Pythagoras
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According to _____, the individual never does wrong knowingly.
a. Aristotle
b. Socrates
c. Parmenides
d. Pythagoras
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Ironically, _____ held that he knew nothing except that he knew nothing.
a. Socrates
b. Parmenides
c. Aristotle
d. Plato
31.
Trusting the senses would tend to make one an _____ rather than a rationalist or a
skeptic.
a. monist
b. empiricist
c. Atheist
d. dualist
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A _____ like Thales holds that all of reality has a single, unifying characteristic.
a. dualist
b. empiricist
c. idealist
d. monist
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Thales held that All is _____.
a. Water
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During the Persian Wars, Athens and her allies defeated the armies of the _____.
a. Roman Empire
b. Greek Empire
c. Persian Empire
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Parmenides lived in the city of Elea in southern _____.
a. Italy
b. Greece
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Heraclitus lived in the city of Ephesus, on the coast of _____.
a. Italy
b. Asia Minor
c. Greece
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Socrates was the teacher of Plato.
a. True
b. False
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Socrates, Plato, Thales and Heraclitus lived in Athens.
a. True
b. False
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Socrates was more interested in ethical, rather than metaphysical or epistemological,
questions.
a. True
b. False
45.
Thales, Heraclitus and Parmenides all lived before Socrates.
a. True
b. False
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Thales, Heraclitus and Parmenides were monists, believing that all of reality shared a
single, unifying feature.
a. True
b. False
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Pre-Socratics are philosophers who lived before Socrates.
a. True
b. False
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Both Plato and Parmenides were rationalists, believing that the mind gained knowledge
independently of the senses.
a. True
b. False
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An empiricist is one who believes knowledge originates in sense knowledge.
a. True
b. False
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Thales and Heraclitus agreed that water is reality's central element.
a. True
b. False
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Plato was more concerned with the higher, unchanging world of eternal truths;
Aristotle was more concerned with the changing physical world.
a. True
b. False
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Plato was an empiricist, whereas Aristotle was a rationalist.
a. True
b. False
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Parmenides believed that reality was like a constantly changing fire.
a. True
b. False
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Epistemology involves the study of the nature of morality.
a. True
b. False
55.
Ethics is mainly concerned with proving, or disproving, God's existence.
a. True
b. False
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Thales left behind numerous books, which give detailed descriptions of his beliefs.
a. True
b. False
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Aristotle was born after Socrates.
a. True
b. False
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Socrates was born after Thales.
a. True
b. False
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Pythagoras was born before Plato.
a. True
b. False
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Socrates, because of his irritating habit of questioning the values of his fellow citizens,
was known as a "gadfly."
a. True
b. False
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