HIEU 201 CHAPTER 4 QUIZ
1.
The Ionian philosophers believed that
Answer: nature contains a hidden structure that is
ascertainable by the human mind.
2.
Parmenides' fundamental belief was
Answer: reality
–
the cosmos and all that is within it- is one,
eternal, and unchanging.
3.
The sophists' interest in human and social concerns
Answer: reflect their rational, secular, and analytical
approach to philosophy
4.
Socrates believed that the central concern of the
individual should be to
Answer: perfect one’s character and achieve moral
excellence
5.
Plato's political writings
Answer: reflect his criticism of Athenian democracy
6.
Aristotle's theory of truth held that
Answer: the forms existed in things themselves
7.
Greek drama
Answer: originated in religious festivals
8.
Aristophanes
Answer: ?
9.
Which of the following is NOT true of the Greek
historian Herodotus?
Answer: He eliminated all references to the gods in his
writings.
10.
Greek dramatists
Answer: explored both the weaknesses and the
courage of human beings.
11.
The development of rational though in Greece
Answer: represented a significant advance from Near
Eastern mythopoeic culture but did not result in the
elimination of myth from Greek life and thought
12.
The first Ionian philosophers were called
cosmologists because they
Answer: sought the underlying principles of the
universe
13.
Anaximander rejected Thales' theory that water
was the original substance and believed instead that
was the source of all things.
Answer: the boundless
14.
In contrast to the Mesopotamians and the Egyptians, the
Greeks
Answer: created civic politics and political freedom.
15.
Which of the following is NOT true of Greek medicine as
practiced by Hippocratic physicians?
Answer: It embraced supernatural and magical explanations
and cures for disease.
16.
Socrates' method of inquiry, dialectics, involved
Answer: a dialogue between individuals, meant to root out
illogical assumption and arrive at clearly defined ideas.
17.
Plato argued that truth
Answer: resides in the world of Forms rather than the
material world of experience.
18.
During the classical age of Greek art, art was
Answer: all of the above
19.
Greek historians believed that history
Answer: was not the record of divine wrath or benevolence
but the actions solely of human beings.
20 Thucydides' greatest work
Answer: sought general principles that guide human nature,
through an analysis of the Peloponnesian War
