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Question 1
Plato and Aristotle agreed on how to approach learning and on the idea that the universal forms actually exist.
True
False

Question 2
Zeno was an atomist.
True
False

Question 3
Parmenides believed in trusting reason over one's senses.
True
False

Question 4
Plato trusted his senses over his ability to reason.
True
False

Question 5
According to Plato, the basis of knowledge was fo in universal ______.

Forms

Shapes

Communities

Colors

Question 6
The "Socratic" method involves teaching people by asking them questions. Socrates believed that this worked because people _______.

learned the answer by carefully listening to the question. Socrates hid the answers in the questions.

were easy to embarass this way. Socrates fo this amusing.

were worth teaching. Socrates loved to know things other people didn't.

innately knew the answer, they just didn't realize they did. The questions simply helped them discover the knowledge they already had.

Question 7
Thales believed that everything was made of ______.

heat

air

fire

water

Question 8
In the "Allegory of the Cave," Plato states that if the prisoners could, they would _____ the man who had escaped.

hit

praise

kill

worship

Question 9
Socrates believed that the soul was the true self and that the body was simply there as an accompaniment.
True
False

Question 10
The Cynics believed that society's conventional values were trustworthy and must be maintained at all cost.
True
False

Question 11
Aristotle believed in learning through observing the natural world.
True
False

Question 12
Aristotle considered God the ______, the uncaused cause that everything can be traced back to.

Untrained Learner

Grand Mystery

Great Lie

Unmoved Mover

Question 13
The three part argument that Aquinas proposed to suggested that the universe must have been created by God (who therefore must exist) is known as the cosmological arument for God.
True
False

Question 14
The Greek poet to whom the Illiad and the Odyssey are attributed to is _______.

Cato

Homer

Edgar Allan Poe

Virgil

Question 15
In Aristotle's virtue ethics, he believed in trying to find the _____ between deficit and excess.

secret

mean

path

combination

Question 16
Heraclitus claimed that everything was made of ______.

air

fire

water

love

Question 17
Aristotle divided the way we describe everything into ten basic ______.

ranks

objectives

riddles

categories

Question 18
The name of Stoic philosophy is derived from the Greek word "stoa" which means _____.

porch

truth

standing

suffering

Question 19
The Skeptics did not feel that we have any right to assume that human reason can be trusted as a means to erstand reality.
True
False

Question 20
The period that began with Alexander's spreading Greek culture throughout the world is known as the ______ period (your book states that it began upon his death, but many would argue that it began over the period of time during which he spread Greek culture).

Imperial

Hellenistic

Hellenic

pan-Greek

Question 21
TeheEupicureans believed that only ______ is good.

love

ignorance

suffering

pleasure

Question 22
Thomas Aquinas accepted Platonic dualism.
True
False

Question 23
Thomas Aquinas divided knowlege into two spheres. That of faith and that of reason.
True
False

Question 24
Aquinas believed that humankind's ability to describe God was limited because we and everything we experience is limited, but God is _____

big

strong

infinite

omnipresent

Question 25
The idea that God must exist because the universe is orderly but could not have produced that order itself (and is therefore made orderly by an intelligent being) is known as the _____ argument for God.

Teleological

Encyclial

Pathological

Oderian

Question 26
The rediscovery of the works of Aristotle had a major impact on late Medeival thought.
Question 26 options:
True
False

Question 27
Augustine got many of his ideas about how God illuminated the universe from his interpretation of the works of _______.

Aristotle

Epictus

Plato

Zeno

Question 28
The idea that the simplest explanation of something is usually the best is known as _____.

Ockham's Razor

Augustine's Razor

Zeno's Paradox

Hubble's Law

Question 29
Augustine separated the fallen "City of Man" (sometimes called the "City of the World") from the perfect "City of God."

True
False

Question 30
Anselm's idea that if people can concieve of God, a perfect being who exists (because existence is a prerequisite of perfection), therefore God must exist is known as the ______ for God's existence.

Ontological

Confrontational

Teleological

Illogical

Question 31
One of the defining debates of Medeival Philosophy is that between the superiority of faith versus reason.
Question 31 options:
True
False

Question 32
The early portion of the Middle Ages is often referred to as the _____ Ages because of the sad state of civilization.

inner

poor

dark

light

Question 33
Augustine believed evil to be real, and mocked those who thought that it was simply the absense of God.
True
False

Question 34
The Pre-Socratic philosophers had many divergent opinions, but they did have a lot in common. What are some of these things that many of them shared? Your answer can include both claims as well as their methods of enquiry.

Question 35
In the allegory of the cave, the prisoners want to kill the escaped prisoner when he returns and tries to tell of the world of illusion that the other prisoners were living in. Why do they want to do this? Do people react in similar ways today when their preconceptions are challedged? Why or why not?

Question 36 Explain how Augustine used Plato's ideas in formulating his own philosophy.