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Philosophy Revision Quiz: Year 9

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 28mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Plato's story was called the allegory of the

(a)  

2.

What happened in the Allegory of the Cave?

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3.

What is a materialist?

a)

Someone who believes in God.

b)

Someone who believes in a soul.

c)

Someone who believes we are only made up of physical things and there are no other worlds/souls etc.

d)

Someone who believes in Buddhism

4.

What is a dualist?

a)

Someone who believes in God.

b)

Someone who likes to dual.

c)

Someone who believes that robots are going to take over the world.

d)

Someone who believes that there are more than two parts to something, e.g. a body and a soul.

5.

Aristotle believed that there were four

(a)  

6.

What four questions did Aristotle ask to find out the cause or purpose of something?

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7.

What did Aristotle think was the cause of all existence?

a)

The Prime Mover

b)

God

c)

Plato's Cave

d)

Allah

8.

How did Plato and Aristotle influence Christianity?

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9.

What is reincarnation?

a)

When your body is bought back to life.

b)

When your soul is reborn into a new body.

c)

A Buddhist belief

d)

An ancient Greek belief

10.

What were the three parts of the soul, according to Plato?

a)

Reason, love, happiness.

b)

Appetite, love, pain.

c)

Reason, desire, spirit.

d)

Reason, spirit, appetite.

11.

Aristotle was a

(a)  

12.

Plato was a

(a)  

13.

Do you believe we have a soul?

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14.

Did Richard Dawkins believe our minds and bodies were separate?

a)

No, he thought we were just 'survival machines'.

b)

Yes, he believes our soul lives on after death.

c)

Yes, he believes they are separate.

d)

Yes, he is Christian.

15.

Does Gilbert Ryle think our minds and bodies are separate?

a)

No, he believes we are just 'survival machines'.

b)

Yes, he believes our minds survive after the death of our bodies.

c)

No, he believes to say that is a fault in the way we use language.

d)

Yes, he has a strong belief in Heaven.

16.

A substance dualist believes that the world is made up of physical stuff and

(a)  

17.

What do reductive physicalists believe?

a)

That there is life after death.

b)

That the world is only made up of physical stuff.

c)

That we have a body and a soul.

d)

That we should be physical all the time.

18.

What is the cosmological argument?

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19.

What is the teleological argument?

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20.

What type of story did Plato tell?

a)

An allegory

b)

A religious story

c)

A factual one

d)

A story about God