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1

Plato’s writings mostly take the form of _______, in which knowledge is revealed as two characters ask and answer questions of each other:

Option A: Dialogues

Option B: Apology

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Dialogues ✔


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2

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

Option A: Menaechmus

Option B: Pedanius

Option C: Asclepiades

Option D: Alcmaeon

Correct Answer: Menaechmus ✔


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3

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

Option A: Herophilus

Option B: Heracleides

Option C: Hero

Option D: Erasistratus

Correct Answer: Heracleides ✔


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4

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?

Option A: He first suggested that the solar system was sun-centered

Option B: He read all of Aristotle’s work straight through without falling asleep

Option C: He estimated the diameter and the circumference of the Earth accurately to within 1 mile

Option D: He estimated the solar year to be 365 days and six hours long

Correct Answer: He estimated the solar year to be 365 days and six hours long ✔


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5

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

Option A: Eratosthenes

Option B: Plato

Option C: Diophantus

Option D: Eppipides

Correct Answer: Eppipides ✔


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6

A pupil of Plato’s 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?

Option A: Eratosthenes

Option B: Callipus

Option C: Diophantus

Option D: Eppipides

Correct Answer: Callipus ✔


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7

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

Option A: Xenophon

Option B: Aristotle

Option C: Socrates

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Socrates ✔


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8

In Plato’s ‘The Republic”, who does Socrates suggest should rule over society?

Option A: The military

Option B: Nobody; no man should rule over any other man

Option C: An elected parliament

Option D: An elite group of ‘philosopherkings”

Correct Answer: D. An elite group of ‘philosopherkings” ✔


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9

Plato died at the age of:__________?

Option A: 76 years

Option B: 78 years

Option C: 79 years

Option D: 80 years

Correct Answer: 80 years ✔


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10

In which Greek city was Plato died?

Option A: Sparta

Option B: Stagira

Option C: Athens

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Athens ✔


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11

In which Greek city was Plato born?

Option A: Sparta

Option B: Stagira

Option C: Athens

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Athens ✔


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12

Plato was born in:__________?

Option A: 427 B.C.

Option B: 437 B.C.

Option C: 417 B.C.

Option D: 327 B.C.

Correct Answer: A. 427 B.C. ✔


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13

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

Option A: Michaelangelo

Option B: Raphael

Option C: Leonardo da Vinci

Option D: Titian

Correct Answer: Raphael ✔


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14

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

Option A: The nature of human knowledge

Option B: Whether or not God exists

Option C: The best form of civic government

Option D: The origin of the universe

Correct Answer: The nature of human knowledge ✔


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15

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?

Option A: Politicus

Option B: Meno

Option C: Protagoras

Option D: Phaedo

Correct Answer: Meno ✔


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16

Plato’s writings mostly take the form of _______ , in which knowledge is revealed as two characters ask and answer questions of each other:

Option A: Dialogues

Option B: Apology

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Dialogues ✔


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17

Which of Plato’s works describes the trial of Socrates, and Socrates’ defense against charges that he was corrupting the youth of Athens?

Option A: Crito

Option B: Meno

Option C: The Apology

Option D: Timaeus

Correct Answer: The Apology ✔


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18

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

Option A: Aristophanes

Option B: Aeschylus

Option C: Sophocles

Option D: Euripides

Correct Answer: Aristophanes ✔


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19

Which work of Plato’s was most influenced by the mystical-scientificideas of the pythagoreans?

Option A: Crito

Option B: Apology

Option C: Chermides

Option D: Timaeus

Correct Answer: Timaeus ✔


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20

Menaechmus was a pupil of:__________?

Option A: Eudoxus

Option B: Callipus

Option C: Perga

Option D: Appollonius

Correct Answer: Eudoxus ✔


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21

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:”

Option A: Eratosthenes

Option B: Plato

Option C: Diophantus

Option D: Eppipides

Correct Answer: Plato ✔


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22

What was name of Plato’s father?

Option A: Ariston

Option B: Perictione

Option C: Xenophon

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Ariston ✔


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23

what was name of Plato’s mother?

Option A: Ariston

Option B: Perictione

Option C: Xenophon

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Perictione ✔


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24

Plato “The Man and His Work” book was written by: __________?

Option A: A.E. Taylor

Option B: Paul Shorey

Option C: Jacob A. Kline

Option D: G. Vlastos

Correct Answer: A. A.E. Taylor ✔


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25

What Plato Said book was written by:__________?

Option A: A.E. Taylor

Option B: Paul Shorey

Option C: Jacob A. Kline

Option D: G. Vlastos

Correct Answer: Paul Shorey ✔


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26

Platonic Studies book was written by:__________?

Option A: Jacob A. Kline

Option B: G. Vlastos

Option C: Paul Shorey

Option D: A.E. Taylor

Correct Answer: G. Vlastos ✔


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27

A Commentary on Plato’s Meno book was written by:__________

Option A: Paul Shorey

Option B: Jacob A. Kline

Option C: G. Vlastos

Option D: A.E. Taylor

Correct Answer: B. Jacob A. Kline ✔


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28

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”:

Option A: Eratosthenes

Option B: Plato

Option C: Diophantus

Option D: Eppipides

Correct Answer: Plato ✔


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29

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:”

Option A: Eratosthenes

Option B: Plato

Option C: Diophantus

Option D: Eppipides

Correct Answer: Plato ✔


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30

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

Option A: Aristophanes

Option B: Aeschylus

Option C: Sophocles

Option D: Euripides

Correct Answer: Aristophanes ✔


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31

What is the subject of Plato’s “The Symposium”?

Option A: War

Option B: Love

Option C: Death

Option D: Justice

Correct Answer: Love ✔


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32

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

Option A: Physics

Option B: Geometry

Option C: Astronomy

Option D: Arithmetic

Correct Answer: Geometry ✔


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33

The ‘Platonic bodies’ which Plato describes in his ‘most scientific work, (mentioned in the previous question) can best be characterized as what?

Option A: Linear Structures

Option B: Biological Systems

Option C: Astronomical Phenomenae

Option D: Regular Solids

Correct Answer: Regular Solids ✔


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34

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

Option A: Eratosthenes

Option B: Plato

Option C: Diophantus

Option D: Eppipides

Correct Answer: Plato ✔


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35

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:”

Option A: Eratosthenes

Option B: Plato

Option C: Diophantus

Option D: Eppipides

Correct Answer: Plato ✔


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36

Which subject does Socrates discuss in “Euthyphro”?

Option A: Piety, and our duties toward the gods

Option B: The need to discipline children properly

Option C: The purpose of art and music

Option D: How to determine if a war is just

Correct Answer: Piety, and our duties toward the gods ✔


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37

In Plato’s “Crito,” Crito tries, unsuccessfully, to convince Socrates to do which of the following things?

Option A: Become the new king of Athens

Option B: Renounce his philosophy

Option C: Urge the masses to rise up in revolt

Option D: Flee from Athens

Correct Answer: Flee from Athens ✔


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38

Which of Plato’s works describes the trial of Socrates, and Socrates’ defense against charges that he was corrupting the youth of Athens?

Option A: Crito

Option B: Meno

Option C: The Apology

Option D: Timaeus

Correct Answer: The Apology ✔


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39

According to Palto’s “Phaedo”, what was Socrates’ demeanor in his cell, as he awaited his pending execution?

Option A: Extremely afraid

Option B: Angered by the injustice of his sentence

Option C: Pleasant, calm and resigned to his fate

Option D: Saddened and depressed

Correct Answer: Pleasant, calm and resigned to his fate ✔


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40

Eudoxus was a great influence on:

Option A: Euclid

Option B: Ptolemy

Option C: Both (a) & (b)

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Both (a) & (b) ✔


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41

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

Option A: Eratosthenes

Option B: Plato

Option C: Diophantus

Option D: Eppipides

Correct Answer: Plato ✔


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42

Eudoxus was born in:

Option A: Sparta

Option B: Stagira

Option C: Athens

Option D: Cnidus Peninsula

Correct Answer: Cnidus Peninsula ✔


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43

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

Option A: Socrates

Option B: Xenophon

Option C: Aristotle

Option D: Plato

Correct Answer: Plato ✔


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44

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

Option A: Socrates

Option B: Xenophon

Option C: Aristotle

Option D: Eudoxus

Correct Answer: Eudoxus ✔


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45

Who was the student of Plato?

Option A: Xenophon

Option B: Aristotle

Option C: Socrates

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Aristotle ✔


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46

_________ 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:

Option A: Plato

Option B: Aristotle

Option C: Socrates

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Plato ✔


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47

After years of travel and study, Plato founded the Academy in:__________?

Option A: 357 B.C.

Option B: 367 B.C.

Option C: 377 B.C.

Option D: 387 B.C.

Correct Answer: 387 B.C. ✔


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48

Who was the teacher of Plato?

Option A: Xenophon

Option B: Aristotle

Option C: Socrates

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Socrates ✔


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49

Name the ancient philosopher who wrote “The Republic”:

Option A: Eratosthenes

Option B: Plato

Option C: Diophantus

Option D: Eppipides

Correct Answer: Plato ✔


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50

Who was the mentor of Plato?

Option A: Xenophon

Option B: Aristotle

Option C: Socrates

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Socrates ✔


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