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Chapter 03

Socrates, Plato

 

 

Multiple Choice Questions

1.   The most famous dialogue of Plato is _____, from the so-called middle period of Plato’s writings, during which Plato reached the peak of his genius.
A.the Republic
B. the Apology
C. the Meno
D. the Gorgias

 

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2.   Which of the following dialogues of Plato gives the best-known account of the Theory of Forms?
A.the Apology
B. the Republic
C. the Meno
D. the Gorgias

 

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3.   What did Socrates hope to achieve by practicing the Socratic method?
A.He hoped to show that knowledge is impossible.
B. He wanted to show that a skillful debater could win any side of any argument.
C. He wanted to display the fact that he was indeed the wisest man in all of Greece.
D. He wanted to detect misconceptions and reveal them by asking the right questions.

 

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4.   Which of the following statements would Plato have agreed with?
A.The senses alone can provide knowledge.
B. Physical objects are eternal, perfect, and unchanging.
C. Man is the measure of all things.
D. The senses are a source of error, illusion, and ignorance.

 

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5.   Plato’s three famous theories are as follows:
A.the Theory of Forms, the Theory of Knowledge, and the Theory of the Oracle.
B. the Theory of Fire and Becoming, the Tunnel Theory, and the Theory of Knowledge.
C. the Theory of Becoming, the Theory of Relativity, and the Theory of the Absolute Truth.
D. the Theory of Knowledge, the Theory of Love and Becoming, and the Theory of Forms.

 

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6.   When the Delphi Oracle pronounced Socrates to be the wisest of people, Socrates thought the pronouncement referred to the fact that he:
A.was aware of the ignorance of most other philosophers.
B. was aware of his ignorance.
C. was aware of everything and nothing.
D. never wrote anything.

 

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True / False Questions

7.   Sometimes Plato’s Forms are referred to as Ideas, and the Theory of Forms is also said to be the Theory of Ideas.
TRUE

 

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8.   The Socratic/dialectic method is a search for the proper definition of a thing, a definition that will not permit refutation under Socratic questioning.
TRUE

 

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9.   Plato believed that some forms, especially the Forms “truth”, “beauty”, and “goodness”, are of a higher order than other Forms.
TRUE

 

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10.                Platonic dualism was utterly rejected by early Christianity.
FALSE

 

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11.                Cratylus thought that one couldn’t step into the same river even once.
TRUE

 

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12.                Protagoras was rejecting absolute knowledge when he said that man is the measure of all things.
TRUE

 

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13.                Plato believed that it is enough to know the truth.
FALSE

 

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14.                Socrates did not merely engage in sophistry—he was not interested in arguing simply for the sake of arguing.
TRUE

 

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Chapter 05

Philosophers of the Hellenistic and Christian Eras

 

 

Multiple Choice Questions

1.   Which of the following ancient traditions did Plotinus represent?
A.Stoicism
B. Epicureanism
C. Skepticism
D. Neoplatonism

 

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2.   What is asserted by the principle of noncontradiction?
A.People who don’t contradict themselves are rational.
B. A proposition and its contradiction cannot both be false at the same time.
C. A proposition and its contradiction can’t both be true.
D. If two propositions don’t contradict each other then both of them are true.

 

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3.   What did Hypatia think about the study of mathematics and astronomy?
A.The study was useful in finding practical solutions to practical problems on earth.
B. The study was an amusing diversion and, like philosophy, just idle speculation.
C. The study was a way of proving the truth of Christianity.
D. The study was a way of checking metaphysical and epistemological features of Plato’s, Aristotle’s, and Plotinus’s philosophies against the physical universe.

 

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4.   Those who think that universal terms like “man” denote something that exists outside the mind subscribe to _____.
A.conceptualism
B. realism
C. druidism
D. abstractionism

 

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5.   Those who think that they can account for universal terms without invoking universals either as real things out there in the world or as concepts in the mind subscribe to _____.
A.nominalism
B. conceptualism
C. abstractionism
D. determinism

 

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6.   Which of the following views did Aquinas accept?
A.A physical thing is composed of matter and form.
B. All reality is material.
C. Forms exist independently of matter.
D. Nothing changes.

 

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7.   Which of the following views of Aristotle did Aquinas disagree with?
A.Physical things are always a blend of matter plus form.
B. The essence of a thing is the same as its existence.
C. One and the same form (universal) can be in more than one physical thing (particular).
D. Change is explained in terms of four causes: the formal, the material, the efficient, and the final.

 

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8.   What did Aquinas maintain concerning the soul?
A.It is the passive potentiality of the body.
B. It is finite and destructible.
C. It cannot exist without the body.
D. It is a direct creation of God.

 

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True / False Questions

9.   Plotinus believed in a personal God as the source of all reality and truth.
FALSE

 

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10.                St. Augustine regarded Plotinus and Plato as having prepared him for Christianity by exposing him to important Christian principles before he encountered them in scripture.
TRUE

 

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11.                Hypatia set forth the Ten Tropes, a collection of ten arguments by the ancient skeptics against the possibility of knowledge.
FALSE

 

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12.                Augustine thought that God was within time, which is an objective feature of the world.
FALSE

 

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13.                The Academics and the Pyrrhonists are modified skeptics.
FALSE

 

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14.                Sextus Empiricus believed that occasionally we perceive things as they really are.
FALSE

 

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15.                St. Augustine used the principle of noncontradiction to refute Academic skepticism.
TRUE

 

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16.                For Aquinas, “what” a thing is (its essence) is not the same as “that” it is (its existence).
TRUE

 

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17.                Thomistic cosmology (theory of the universe as an ordered whole) is based on a geocentric view of the universe, and this is also true of Aquinas’s psychology.
TRUE

 

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18.                Regarding universals, conceptualism is the thought that universal terms refer to something that really exists outside of the mind.
FALSE

 

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