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1 Name the ancient philosopher who wrote The Republic:

A Eratosthenes B Plato C Diophantus D Eppipides

✅ Correct Answer: 2

2 After years of travel and study Plato founded the Academy in:

A 357 B.C. B 367 B.C. C 377 B.C. D 387 B.C.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

3 Who was the mentor of Plato?

A Xenophon B Aristotle C Socrates D None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

4 _________ was a Classical Greek philosopher mathematician writer of philosophical dialogues and founder of the Academy in Athens the first Institution of higher learning in the Western world:

A Plato B Aristotle C Socrates D None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

5 Who was the teacher of Plato?

A Xenophon B Aristotle C Socrates D None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

6 Who was the student of Plato?

A Xenophon B Aristotle C Socrates D None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

7 Along with his mentor Socrates and his student Aristotle helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science:

A Socrates B Xenophon C Aristotle D Plato

✅ Correct Answer: 4

8 Along with his mentor Socrates and his student Aristotle helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science:

A Socrates B Xenophon C Aristotle D Plato

✅ Correct Answer: 3

9 Which student of Plato developed the system of concentric spheres that became the epicycles of the Ptolemaic astronomical system?

A Socrates B Xenophon C Aristotle D Eudoxus

✅ Correct Answer: 4

10 Eudoxus was born in:

A Sparta B Stagira C Athens D Cnidus Peninsula

✅ Correct Answer: 4

11 Who said Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty:

A Eratosthenes B Plato C Diophantus D Eppipides

✅ Correct Answer: 2

12 Who said He who is of a calm and happy nature willhardly feel the pressure of age but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden:

A Eratosthenes B Plato C Diophantus D Eppipides

✅ Correct Answer: 2

13 Eudoxus was a great influence on:

A Euclid B Ptolemy C Both (a) & (b) D None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

14 Menaechmus was a pupil of:

A Eudoxus B Callipus C Perga D Appollonius

✅ Correct Answer: 1

15 Which work of Platos was most influenced by the mystical-scientificideas of the pythagoreans?

A Crito B Apology C Chermides D Timaeus

✅ Correct Answer: 4

16 In The Symposium what Greek playwright suggests that all human beings are seeking their missing other halves?

A Aristophanes B Aeschylus C Sophocles D Euripides

✅ Correct Answer: 1

17 Which of Platos works describes the trial of Socrates and Socrates defense against charges that he was corrupting the youth of Athens?

A Crito B Meno C The Apology D Timaeus

✅ Correct Answer: 3

18 Platos writings mostly take the form of _______ in which knowledge is revealed as two characters ask and answer questions of each other:

A Dialogues B Apology C Both (a) & (b) D None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

19 Plato established an important method which has been passed down through the ages. That is that when one has a problem that has already been solved one can work backwards from it until a statement can be reached of which the veracity has already been determined. In other words a method of attaining proofs. In which of his works was this method established?

A Politicus B Meno C Protagoras D Phaedo

✅ Correct Answer: 2

20 What is the primary subject of Socrates dialogues with Thaetetus?

A The nature of human knowledge B Whether or not God exists C The best form of civic government D The origin of the universe

✅ Correct Answer: 1

21 Plato and his most esteemed student Aristotle both appear in the painting The School of Athens by which Renaissance masster?

A Michaelangelo B Raphael C Leonardo da Vinci D Titian

✅ Correct Answer: 2

22 Plato was born in:

A 427 B.C. B 437 B.C. C 417 B.C. D 327 B.C.

✅ Correct Answer: 1

23 Plato died in:

A 337 B.C. B 357 B.C. C 327 B.C. D 347 B.C.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

24 In which Greek city was Plato born?

A Sparta B Stagira C Athens D None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

25 In which Greek city was Plato died?

A Sparta B Stagira C Athens D None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

26 Plato died at the age of:

A 76 years B 78 years C 79 years D 80 years

✅ Correct Answer: 4

27 In Platos The Republic who does Socrates suggest should rule over society?

A The military B Nobody; no man should C An elected parliament D An elite group of philosopherkings

✅ Correct Answer: 4

28 _______ argues that the wrong types of literature and music can corrupt the youth of Greece and must therefore be strictly controlled:

A Xenophon B Aristotle C Socrates D None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

29 A pupil of Platos great student who developed the system of concentric spheres borrowed by Ptolemy was this man who advanced the system of epicycles adding an additional seven laying the final groundwork for the system adopted by Aristotle and Ptolemy Who was he?

A Eratosthenes B Callipus C Diophantus D Eppipides

✅ Correct Answer: 2

30 _______ is one of the big three in ancient Greek philosopher along with Aristotle and Socrates:

A Eratosthenes B Plato C Diophantus D Eppipides

✅ Correct Answer: 4

31 Aside from developing the system of concentric spheres upon which the epicyclic Ptolemaic arrangement of the solar system was based what other remarkable achievement was made by this great follower of Plato?

A He first suggested that the solar system was sun-centered B He read all of Aristotles work straight through without falling asleep C He estimated the diameter and the circumference of the Earth accurately to within 1 mile D He estimated the solar year to be 365 days and six hours long

✅ Correct Answer: 4

32 Which Platonic disciple suggested that the Earth turns on its axis every 24 hours and that the solar system might be heliocentric?

A Herophilus B Heracleides C Hero D Erasistratus

✅ Correct Answer: 2

33 Another individual from the Platonic school he initiated the study of conic sections - the hyperbola the parabola and the ellipse. Who was he?

A Menaechmus B Pedanius C Asclepiades D Alcmaeon

✅ Correct Answer: 1

34 Platos writings mostly take the form of _______ in which knowledge is revealed as two characters ask and answer questions of each other:

A Dialogues B Apology C Both (a) & (b) D None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

35 What was name of Platos father?

A Ariston B Perictione C Xenophon D None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

36 what was name of Platos mother?

A Ariston B Perictione C Xenophon D None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

37 Plato The Man and His Work book was written by:

A A.E. Taylor B Paul Shorey C Jacob A. Kline D G. Vlastos

✅ Correct Answer: 1

38 What Plato Said book was written by:

A A.E. Taylor B Paul Shorey C Jacob A. Kline D G. Vlastos

✅ Correct Answer: 2

39 Platonic Studies book was written by:

A Jacob A. Kline B G. Vlastos C Paul Shorey D A.E. Taylor

✅ Correct Answer: 2

40 A Commentary on Platos Meno book was written by:

A Paul Shorey B Jacob A. Kline C G. Vlastos D A.E. Taylor

✅ Correct Answer: 2

41 Who said These then will be some of the features of democracy .... It will be in all likelihood an agreeable lawless parti-colored common wealth dealing with all alike on a footing of equality whether they be really equal or not:

A Eratosthenes B Plato C Diophantus D Eppipides

✅ Correct Answer: 2

42 Who said Democracy is a charming form of government full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike:

A Eratosthenes B Plato C Diophantus D Eppipides

✅ Correct Answer: 2

43 he Platonic bodies which Plato describes in his most scientific work (mentioned in the previous question) can best be characterized as what?

A Linear Structures B Biological Systems C Astronomical Phenomenae D Regular Solids

✅ Correct Answer: 4

44 Above the entrance to his Academy was the following quote let none who has not learned ______ enter here. What goes in the blank:

A Physics B Geometry C Astronomy D Arithmetic

✅ Correct Answer: 2

45 Who said Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment:

A Eratosthenes B Plato C Diophantus D Eppipides

✅ Correct Answer: 2

46 Who said Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped not from one master but from many:

A Eratosthenes B Plato C Diophantus D Eppipides

✅ Correct Answer: 2

47 Which subject does Socrates discuss in Euthyphro?

A Piety and our duties toward the gods B The need to discipline children properly C The purpose of art and music D How to determine if a war is just

✅ Correct Answer: 1

48 In Platos Crito Crito tries unsuccessfully to convince Socrates to do which of the following things?

A Become the new king of Athens B Renounce his philosophy C Urge the masses to rise up in revolt D Flee from Athens

✅ Correct Answer: 4

49 What is the subject of Platos The Symposium?

A War B Love C Death D Justice

✅ Correct Answer: 2

50 In The Symposium what Greek playwright suggests that all human beings are seeking their missing other halves?

A Aristophanes B Aeschylus C Sophocles D Euripides

✅ Correct Answer: 1

51 Which of Platos works describes the trial of Socrates and Socrates defense against charges that he was corrupting the youth of Athens?

A Crito B Meno C The Apology D Timaeus

✅ Correct Answer: 3

52 According to Paltos Phaedo what was Socrates demeanor in his cell as he awaited his pending execution?

A Extremely afraid B Angered by the injustice of his sentence C Pleasant calm and resigned to his fate D Saddened and depressed

✅ Correct Answer: 3

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