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Philosophers

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

He was the first person to suggest the Earth was a sphere

a)

Pythagoras

b)

Confucious

c)

Laozi

d)

Aristotle

2.

Who was a student of Socrates?

a)

Plato

b)

Alexander the Great

c)

Aristotle

d)

Pericules

3.

What other name did people called Aristotle?

a)

the master

b)

the genius

c)

great student

d)

great thinker

4.

What does Socrates believe is dangerous in life?

a)

evil people

b)

false beliefs

c)

believing in yourself

d)

trying to understand the world

5.

During what age was Socrates born?

a)

Bronze

b)

Dark

c)

Golden

d)

Pink

6.

Which philosopher studied at Plato's Academy?

a)

Socrates

b)

Aristotle

c)

Alexander the Great

d)

Pericles

7.

Which of the following 4 are NOT one of Plato's works?

a)

Meno

b)

Phaedo

c)

Symposium

d)

The Athenian Constitution

8.

Student of Socrates

(a)  

9.

He was put on trial for corrupting the city's youth which led to his death by drinking hemlock.

(a)  

10.

In which one or ones of the following works was Socrates' trial, imprisonment, and death recounted by Plato?

a)

Apology

b)

Crito

c)

Phaedo

d)

Meno

e)

Poetics

11.

He was a tutor to Alexader the Great

a)

Plato

b)

Alexander I

c)

Aristotle

d)

Socrates

12.

Student of Plato

a)

Confucious

b)

Diogenes

c)

Aristotle

d)

Socrates

13.

Many of Aristotle's works come from his lectures at _________

a)

The Academy

b)

Athens

c)

The Lyceum

d)

The Symposium

14.

. His philosophical output includes the Nicomachean Ethics, Physics, and Metaphysics

a)

Confucious

b)

Diogenes

c)

Aristotle

d)

Socrates

15.

His Poetics discusses the types of drama and considers an effect of tragedies known as catharsis, or the purging of bad feelings

a)

Confucious

b)

Plato

c)

Aristotle

d)

Socrates

16.

A pivotal thinker from China’s Spring and Autumn period, his views on proper conduct and filial piety still influence China to this day.

a)

Confucious

b)

Diogenes

c)

Laozi

d)

Zeno of Elea

17.

Many of his works were compiled by his disciples following his death in a text known as the Analects.

(a)  

18.

He put much importance on ren, the inner state which allows one to behave compassionately toward others, and on a concept called li, which can help individuals attain ren.

a)

Confucious

b)

Diogenes

c)

Laozi

d)

Zeno of Elea

19.

a quasi-mythical thinker of the Taoist tradition, to whom the pivotal Tao te Ching is attributed.

a)

Confucious

b)

Diogenes

c)

Laozi

d)

Zeno of Elea

20.

Associated with Tao (the way) and wu wei (a life of non-action)

a)

Confucious

b)

Diogenes

c)

Laozi

d)

Zeno of Elea

21.

He is frequently depicted as an old man with a donkey. He is attributed to the quote “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

a)

Confucious

b)

Diogenes

c)

Laozi

d)

Zeno of Elea

22.

Founded the school of Cynicism

a)

Antisthenes

b)

Diogenes

c)

Epicurus

d)

Aristotle

23.

According to legend, he lived in a tub or a barrel on the street, and wandered Athens holding a lamp in his futile search for an honest man

a)

Antisthenes

b)

Diogenes

c)

Epicurus

d)

Socrates

24.

Founder of the school of Epicureanism who believed that pleasure was the highest good, and that the absence of pain (aponia) was the highest pleasure.

a)

Epicurus

b)

Confucius

c)

Aristotle

d)

Diogenes

25.

He is most famous today for “Zeno’s paradoxes,” most notably the Dichotomy Paradox

a)

Zeno of Elea

b)

Diogenes

c)

Zeno of Citium

d)

Epicurus

26.

Known as the "first philosopher"

a)

Thales

b)

Anaximenes

c)

Cicero

d)

Diogenes

27.

Though he is better remembered today for his role in the political life of the Roman Republic, he (sometimes known as “Tully”) was also a significant philosopher.

a)

Cicero

b)

Thales

c)

Diogenes

d)

Zeno of Elea

28.

The concept of wu wei can be attributed to what religion?

a)

Buddhism

b)

Taoism

c)

Hinduism

d)

Sikhism

29.

He is credited with discovering that any triangle whose hypotenuse is the diameter of a circle must be a right triangle. He is sometimes thought of as the founder of a “Milesian school” of philosophy

(a)  

30.

On the Republic, Hortensius, On the Nature of the Gods, and On the Laws, were all authored by this man

(a)  

31.

His extensive writings include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy and politics, and he is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.

a)

Cicero

b)

Caesar

c)

Alexander the Great

d)

Plato

32.

Known as the "father of tragedy"

a)

Cicero

b)

Socrates

c)

Aristotle

d)

Aeschylus

33.

Founder of the school of stoicism

a)

Zeno of Elea

b)

Diogenes

c)

Zeno of Citium

d)

Epicurus

34.

His philosophical output includes Nicomachean Ethics, which argues that virtues consist in a “golden mean” between two extremes.

a)

Socrates

b)

Aristotle

c)

Alexander the Great

d)

Pericles

35.

Who was NOT associated with existentialism

a)

Søren Kierkegaard

b)

Friedrich Nietzsche

c)

Jean-Paul Sartre

d)

Rene Descartes

36.

Epistemology is

a)

The theory of knowledge

b)

The knowledge of theory

c)

The theory of ethics

d)

The study of ethics