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WorksheetsQuiz_Ancient Philosophy
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
According to him “Nothing is permanent in this world except change.”
a)
Democritus
b)
Pythagoras
c)
Heraclitus
d)
Empedocles
2.
He was among the first to propose that matter is composed of tiny particles called atoms.
a)
Democritus
b)
Pythagoras
c)
Heraclitus
d)
Anaximander
3.
He claimed that the origin of all things is the apeiron or the boundless
a)
Anaximander
b)
Democritus
c)
Heraclitus
d)
Empedocles
4.
He said that Love is the force that combines the elements together.
a)
Pythagoras
b)
Empedocles
c)
Heraclitus
d)
Anaximander
5.
He coined the term philosophy
a)
Democritus
b)
Heraclitus
c)
Empedocles
d)
Pythagoras
6.
He claimed that nothing essential changes
a)
Pythagoras
b)
Democritus
c)
Parmenides
d)
Empedocles
7.
He claimed that air is the arche of all things.
a)
Pythagoras
b)
Anaximenes
c)
Heraclitus
d)
Empedocles
8.
He believed that change and motions are only delusions
a)
Parmenides
b)
Pythagoras
c)
Democritus
d)
Heraclitus
9.
He assumed that there must be something of everything in everything
a)
Pythagoras
b)
Anaxagoras
c)
Heraclitus
d)
Empedocles
10.
He assumed that water is the material cause of all things
a)
Thales
b)
Pythagoras
c)
Democritus
d)
Heraclitus
11.
He was called as the “market place philosopher” because he founded no formal school and taught in the agora.
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
12.
He was a rationalist who believed in the primacy of reason over sense perception.
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
13.
He was an idealist, utopian and a dreamer.
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
14.
He believed in order and harmony and called as the “great organizer”
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
15.
His name literally means ‘high forehead’
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
16.
“An unexamined life is not worth living”
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
17.
He believed in the immortality of the soul.
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
18.
He was accused of “not believing the gods” and “corrupting the minds of the youth”
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
19.
He is famous for his method of elenchus (rigorous questioning technique)
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
20.
He opened a school called “academy”
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
21.
He established the school called ‘lyceum’
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
22.
He is opposed to democracy, rather, he proposed for a philosopher king as a ruler.
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
23.
He introduce the art of rhetoric
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
24.
He explained that there is nothing in our mind which is not first experienced by our senses.
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
25.
He taught that forms do undergo changes while substances never changes.
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
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