Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Which philosopher believed that
all knowledge in inborn?
a. | Aristotle | c. | Kant | b. | Locke | d. | Plato |
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Why was Socrates executed by
forcing him to drink hemlock?
a. | He stole money from the city
treasury | c. | He corrupted the
minds of the youth of Athens | b. | He murdered his wife | d. | He forced a slave boy to solve a geometric
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Which statement below is true
about Plato’s Republic?
a. | The state is more important than the
individual | c. | The state and
individuals are equally important | b. | The individual is more important than the
state | d. | Neither the state or the individual is
important |
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To Plato the philosopher king
was
a. | the person who worked the hardest to
achieve power | c. | the richest person
in society | b. | the smartest person in society | d. | the strongest person in society |
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According to Plato, to be truly
happy you
a. | need to do the job that you were
born to do | c. | the smartest
person in society | b. | have to be free to choose any job in life that you
want. | d. | the richest person in
society |
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What did the Catholic church do
regarding Plato’s Republic?
a. | they adopted it as a model for
society | c. | they hid it from
the public | b. | they rejected it as the work of the devil | d. | they accepted it but did not include the king in the
model |
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According to the “divine
right of kings,” who gave the king his authority?
a. | the
people | c. | God | b. | the philosophers | d. | Plato |
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Plato and Aristotle both
believed in absolute truths. Where did Plato search for absolute truths?
a. | in the
church | c. | in the external world through study
and experience | b. | in the mind | d. | through democracy |
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Plato and Aristotle believed in
absolute truths. Where did Aristotle search for absolute truths?
a. | in the
church | c. | in the external world through study
and experience | b. | in the mind | d. | through democracy |
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Who believed that your
individual conscience is more important than your social conscience?
a. | Socrates | c. | Aristotle | b. | Plato | d. | Karl
Marx |
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Which world leader did
Aristotle tutor?
a. | Julies
Caesar | c. | Socrates | b. | Ganges Khan | d. | Alexander the Great |
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Which statement below is NOT
true regarding the Renaissance?
a. | people began to interpret science
objectively rather than through the eyes of the church | c. | artists began to include real humans in their
paintings | b. | artists began to use perspective in their
paintings | d. | the Catholic Church became stronger
and it consolidated its power in all European countries |
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The new ideas of _____
led to the American revolution.
a. | Socrates and
Plato | c. | the
Enlightenment | b. | Martin Luther | d. | socialism |
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Which philosopher said that
people have a “natural right,” to life, liberty and property
a. | Isaac
Newton | c. | Baron
Moresque | b. | Rene Descartes | d. | John Locke |
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What are “natural
rights?”
a. | rights that you are born with that
come from God | c. | the right to a
clean environment | b. | rights bestowed on the people living in
society | d. | the right to
die |
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Which philosopher said that
power should be separated in the government so one part of the government does not become too
strong?
a. | John
Locke | c. | Isaac
Newton | b. | Voltaire | d. | Baron Moresque |
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What is a “social
contract?”
a. | the right of lawyers to
sue | c. | a marriage
license | b. | an agreement between the people and the
government | d. | the power of the government to
control the citizens |
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Which philosopher had the
greatest influence on Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence?
a. | Thomas
Hobbes | c. | Jean
Rousseau | b. | John Locke | d. | Emmanuel Kant |
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Multiple Response
Identify one
or more choices that best complete the statement or answer the question.
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19.
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Which Greek philosophers had
the greatest impact on Western Civilization? (pick all that apply)
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20.
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Which philosophers believed
that your destiny is fixed at birth?
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21.
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Which philosophers believed
that you become the person you are through life experience and learning?
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22.
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Which groups believe that the
welfare of the state supercedes the rights of any individual inside the state? (pick all that
apply)
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