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Quiz: Greek Thought
HIEU 201 Week 2/Module 2
The Ionian philosophers believed that
a. nature was governed by blind chance and therefore unknowable.
b. nature contains a hidden structure that is ascertainable by the human mind.
c. nature was manipulated by arbitrary and willful gods.
d. nature could be thoroughly and persuasively explained by earlier creation legends.
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Parmenides' fundamental belief was
a. that the matter in the world could be destroyed and reformed an infinite number of times.
b. that the cosmos and all that is within it is one, eternal, and unchanging.
c. that the universe underwent change and development over time.
d. that the senses were the only reliable source of information about nature.
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The Sophists' interest in human and social concerns
a. was based on an emotional interpretation of values and institutions.
b. reflected their rational, secular, and analytical approach to philosophy.
c. emphasized the importance of traditional religion, government, and law.
d. was motivated primarily by their metaphysical concern for the place of human beings in the cosmos.
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(The correct answer is b. reflected their rational, secular, and analytical approach to philosophy.
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Socrates believed that the central concern of the individual should be to
a. pursue fame and power within the political life of the polis.
b. perfect one's character and achieve moral excellence.
c. contemplate the gods and seek immortality.
d. attain a deeper knowledge of the matter and structure of the natural world.
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Plato's political writings
a. reflect his criticism of Athenian democracy.
b. advocate a military dictatorship in which the strongest would maintain law and order.
c. praise the virtues of democracy over all other forms of government.
d. reject the idea that women should have equal access with men to positions of power.
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Aristotle's theory of truth held that
a. the Forms existed in things themselves.
b. philosophy offered no satisfactory way of investigating the natural world.
c. Parmenides was right when he rejected information derived from the senses.
d. the Forms were located in a higher world outside of direct human experience.
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Greek drama
a. originated in religious festivals.
b. avoided depictions of conflict between human beings and the gods.
c. emphasized only the sufferings and weaknesses of individuals.
d. avoided investigations of emotion.
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Aristophanes
a. used comedy to critique Athenian society.
b. was the greatest writer of Greek tragic drama.
c. admired the Athenian leadership of his time.
d. believed female characters on stage to be blasphemy.
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Which of the following is NOT true of the Greek historian Herodotus?
a. He eliminated all references to the gods in his writing.
b. He demonstrated a cautious and critical attitude toward his sources.
c. He valued the study and preservation of the past.
d. He attempted to examine the histories of the Greeks and other societies dispassionately, without prejudice.
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Greek dramatists
a. explored both the weaknesses and the courage of human beings.
b. believed individuals lacked free will in making decisions.
c. rejected the idea of an inner logic in the universe.
d. omitted from their works rational reflection, focusing instead on characters as passive victims.
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The development of rational thought in Greece
a. was completed when Plato and Aristotle eliminated all mythical modes of thought from their philosophy.
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b. represented a significant advance from Near Eastern mythopoeic culture but did not result in the elimination of myth from Greek life and thought.
c. was limited in that reason was applied to the physical world, but not to human activities.
d. represents a smooth continuation of trends that began in the Near East.
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The first Ionian philosophers were called cosmologists because they
a. believed that everything in the world was an impermanent illusion.
b. sought the underlying principles of the universe.
c. rejected the idea that universal principles guided the universe.
d. rejected the study of nature in favor of the study of the stars alone.
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Anaximander rejected Thales' theory that water was the original substance and believed instead that ________ was the source of all things.
a. fire
b. True Being
c. air
d. the Boundless
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In contrast to the Mesopotamians and the Egyptians, the Greeks
a. created civic politics and political freedom.
b. never experienced political tyranny.
c. reluctantly embraced monarchy as required for a just state.
d. lacked a sense of individual worth.
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Which of the following is NOT true of Greek medicine as practiced by Hippocratic physicians?
a. It was influenced by the thought of the early Greek cosmologists.
b. It involved the classification of patients' symptoms and predictions of the course of their disease.
c. It embraced supernatural and magical explanations and cures for disease.
d. It included detailed recording of the observation of ill patients.
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Socrates' method of inquiry, dialectics, involved
a. analysis that was based on the assumption that human beings are fundamentally irrational.
b. the withdrawal of the individual from society, in order to facilitate private contemplation.
c. a dialogue between individuals, meant to root out illogical assumptions and arrive at clearly defined ideas.
d. a process through which an individual cleared him or herself of all negative thoughts.
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Plato argued that truth
a. resides in the world of Forms rather than the material world of experience.
b. is accessible through the senses.
c. is an imperfect and transitory reflection of our knowledge of the physical world.
d. is subjective, rather than a universal absolute.
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During the classical age of Greek art, art was
a. realistic.
b. naturalistic.
c. idealistic.
d. all of the above
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Greek historians believed that history
a. is composed of unique events, each with a special meaning.
b. is not the record of divine wrath or benevolence but the actions solely of human beings.
c. had the purpose of narrating the deeds of gods and their human agents, the god-kings.
d. was vital in marking progression over time.
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Thucydides' greatest work
a. rejected philosophical approaches to history.
b. was a great compilation of myths and legends.
c. sought general principles that guide human nature, through an analysis of the Peloponnesian War.
d. was a study of military tactics during the Persian War.
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