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Recap: Liberal Arts tradition

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Complete the list:

Nature/essence; (a)   ; tools; subjects

2.

Which of these universities is the oldest?

a)

Oxford

b)

Paris

c)

Bologna

d)

St Andrews

3.

Who founded the Academy in Ancient Greece?

(a)  

4.

Which of these is the odd one out?

a)

Grammar

b)

Rhetoric

c)

Logic

d)

Geometry

5.

Complete this list:

Arithmetic; (a)   ; Geometry; Astronomy

6.

Who first used the term 'artes liberalis'?

a)

Cicero

b)

Plato

c)

Aristotle

d)

Newman

7.

Which of these is NOT associated with Renaissance Humanism?

a)

'Ad fontes'

b)

Celebration of the simplicity of Antiquity

c)

Virtue and prudence

d)

Critique of knowledge and its power

8.

What does 'saeculum' mean?

a)

To the sources

b)

Worldly

c)

Flourishing

d)

Reason

9.

Which Greek term can indicate both 'reason', and language (literally, 'the word')?

(a)  

10.

What kind of epistemology does Newman CRITIQUE here?

"Theology thus exercised [limited to the purposes of the pulpit, instead of being cultivated as a contemplation] is not simple knowledge, but rather is an art or a business making use of Theology"

a)

Idealism

b)

Pragmatism