Question 1

Which of the following is a play that is said to have expressed the innermost thoughts of a Greek woman?

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A) Medea 
B) Oedipus Rex 
C) The Clouds 
D) The Persians 
E) The Libation Bearers

Question 2

In his life of sixty-two years, Aristotle

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A) studied under Plato. 
B) tutored Alexander the Great. 
C) founded his own school, the Lyceum. 
D) undertook to systematize the thought of the Pre-Socratics, Socrates and Plato. 
E) All of these

Question 3

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question.
-Compare Ionian views with those of the Pythagoreans and Parmenides.How did each tradition contribute to the development of scientific thought?

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Question 4

Mature Greek historical writing was characterized by

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A) a focus on the deeds of people not the gods. 
B) critical analysis and interpretation. 
C) a sense that history went in cycles. 
D) an attention to the sources and their reliability. 
E) All of these

Question 5

Which of the following cannot be associated with the Ionians?

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A) Ethics as the heart of philosophic speculation 
B) Curiosity about the essential substance that gave rise to all physical phenomena 
C) Physical explanations accounting for natural phenomena 
D) Nature no longer manipulated by the gods or subject to chance 
E) The ability of the human intellect to grasp nature's hidden structure

Question 6

Which of the following is least well matched?

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A) Ionians and rejection of mythic explanations of nature 
B) Pythagoras and mathematical order of nature 
C) Democritus and mechanical structure of the universe 
D) Parmenides and a world in a state of constant flux 
E) Sophists and subjective truth

Question 7

Which is an incorrect statement about the relationship of Socrates to the Sophists?

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A) Unlike the Ionian philosophers, both believed that rational knowledge of the individual and society was more important than knowledge of nature. 
B) Both rejected the old mythological traditions. 
C) Socrates condemned Sophist relativism. 
D) Socrates believed that the Sophists' unbridled critical thinking had undermined belief in the old system of beliefs but has not provided people with a satisfactory replacement. 
E) Socrates and the Sophists had nothing in common.

Question 8

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-Parthenon

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Question 9

Which of the following speculated that the world was composed of atoms?

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A) Democritus 
B) Parmenides 
C) Thales 
D) Pythagoras 
E) Anaximenes

Question 10

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-sophrosyne

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Question 11

Since classical Greek art set the standards that dominated Western art until the end of the 19th century, we can infer that mainstream Western art traditionally valued

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A) representational depictions of the world. 
B) equilibrium and harmony. 
C) the human form as the central focus of attention. 
D) a combination of realism, naturalism, and idealism. 
E) All of these

Question 12

Socrates believed that the perfection of the human person required a grasp of morality, the ability to distinguish good and evil, and to act accordingly.Moral values, he argued, came from

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A) rational inquiry and critical self-examination. 
B) popular opinion and social conventions. 
C) a transcendent, omniscient God. 
D) inherited mytho-religious traditions. 
E) Sophist pragmatism.

Question 13

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-Ionian philosophers

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Question 14

Drama originated in Greece from

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A) festivals honoring the god of wine, Dionysus. 
B) ceremonies depicted in Minoan and Mycenaean art. 
C) competitions among Greek city-states. 
D) the epics of Homer 
E) the dialogues of Plato.

Question 15

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question.
-Use information from both Chapters 3 and 4 to answer the following question: The author stresses the importance of the Greeks and the Hebrews as two sources of Western civilization.Based on the information present to this point, compare and contrast the contribution of each.

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Question 16

In Athens, the Sophists taught

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A) political skills of public speaking and policy-making. 
B) music and mathematics. 
C) secret methods of achieving immortality. 
D) spiritual exercises aimed at individual enlightenment. 
E) practical skills that improved Athenian technology.

Question 17

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-tragedy

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Question 18

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-hubris

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Question 19

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question.
-Trace the nature of questions explored by the cosmologists, the Sophists, and Socrates.

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Question 20

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-drama

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Exam 4: Greek Thought: From Myth to Reason

Which of the following is a play that is said to have expressed the innermost thoughts of a Greek woman?

In his life of sixty-two years, Aristotle

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. -Compare Ionian views with those of the Pythagoreans and Parmenides.How did each tradition contribute to the development of scientific thought?

Mature Greek historical writing was characterized by

Which of the following cannot be associated with the Ionians?

Which of the following is least well matched?

Which is an incorrect statement about the relationship of Socrates to the Sophists?

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Parthenon

Which of the following speculated that the world was composed of atoms?

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -sophrosyne

Since classical Greek art set the standards that dominated Western art until the end of the 19th century, we can infer that mainstream Western art traditionally valued

Socrates believed that the perfection of the human person required a grasp of morality, the ability to distinguish good and evil, and to act accordingly.Moral values, he argued, came from

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Ionian philosophers

Drama originated in Greece from

In Athens, the Sophists taught

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -tragedy

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -hubris

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. -Trace the nature of questions explored by the cosmologists, the Sophists, and Socrates.

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -drama