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WorksheetsPresocratics Review
Total questions: 46
Worksheet time: 23mins
According to Thales, the first principle (archê) is...
Earth
Air
Water
Fire
According to Anaximenes, the first principle (archê) is...
Earth
Air
Water
Fire
According to Heraclitus, the first principle (archê) is...
Number
Air
The Apeiron
Fire
According to Anaximander, the first principle (archê) is...
Number
Air
The Apeiron
Fire
According to the Pythagoreans, the first principle (archê) is...
Number
Air
The Apeiron
Fire
The view that matter is alive or ensouled.
Anthropomorphism
Hylozoism
Asceticism
Teleology
Who was nicknamed "Mr. Mind"?
Anaxagoras
Anaximenes
Anaximander
Empedocles
What type of writing did Pythagoras produce?
Philosophical prose
Poetry
Dialogues
Nothing (he left no writings)
According to Xenophanes, which of the following characteristics does God not possess?
Omnipotence
Omnipresence
Omniscience
Omnivorousness
According to Thales, the earth...
Rests on water, like a log
Rests on air, like a lid
Rests at the centre
Extends infinitely downward
According to Anaximander, the earth...
Rests on water, like a log
Rests on air, like a lid
Rests at the centre
Extends infinitely downward
According to Anaximenes, the earth...
Rests on water, like a log
Rests on air, like a lid
Rests at the centre
Extends infinitely downward
The condition in a city where the laws are good and people abide by them.
Kosmos
Hoi Polloi
Eunomia
Eudaimonia
"The many."
Kosmos
Hoi Polloi
Eunomia
Eudaimonia
One's prime or peak, thought to be around age forty.
Gnomon
Archê
Acme
Telos
Who believed in the transmigration of the soul?
Pythagoras
Democritus
Anaxagoras
Parmenides
Who believed in the transmigration of the soul?
Anaximenes
Anaximander
Empedocles
Democritus
Which of the following is not one of Empedocles' "roots"?
Earth
Water
Air
Strife
According to the atomists, which of the following qualities do atoms possess?
Colour
Smell
Size
Temperature
According to the atomists, which of the following qualities do atoms not possess?
Shape
Taste
Position
Size
Anaxagoras' thesis of universal mixture states:
Something is in everything.
Everything is in everything.
Everything is in something.
Something is in something.
Which of the following is known a priori?
A triangle has three sides.
Vitamin C helps prevent the common cold.
It rained today.
Some bachelors are blond.
Who was nicknamed "the laughing philosopher"?
Leucippus
Anaximander
Democritus
Heraclitus
Who was nicknamed "the weeping philosopher"?
Leucippus
Anaximander
Democritus
Heraclitus
According to some doxographers, in an attempt to prove his immortality, Empedocles threw himself into...
The Mediterranean Sea
Mt. Doom
Mt. Etna
A well
Who is credited with creating the first map of the known world?
Thales
Anaximander
Anaximenes
Xenophanes
According to Anaximenes, as air is condensed, it becomes...
Colder
Hotter
Smaller
Darker
The term "scientist" was coined by William Whewell in 1833.
True
False
The term "Presocratic" was not used before Eberhard in 1788.
True
False
According to Empedocles' "double story," Love is currently gaining a hold on the kosmos.
True
False
The mythikoi, Homer and Hesiod, abandoned traditional narrative accounts of the gods and appealed to reason.
True
False
Xenophanes was critical of the traditional depictions of the gods as engaging in theft, adultery, and deception.
True
False
Most scholars agree that Xenophanes was the founder of Eleatic monism.
True
False
The Pythagorean akousmatikoi were more interested in science and mathematics than religious dogma.
True
False
Anaxagoras was charged with impiety and exiled by the Athenians.
True
False
Alphabetically, which name comes first?
Anaximander
Bias
Anaxagoras
Anaximenes
According to the class ranking in Week One, which of the Milesians was most influential?
Thales
Anaximander
Anaximenes
Heraclitus
Which doctrine is not Heraclitean?
Universal Flux
Universal Mixture
Unity of Opposites
"War is the father of all..."
Which of the following is not part of Parmenides poem?
Proem
Epilogue
Way of Truth
Way of Opinion
According to A. A. Long, which of the following is not characteristics of the general project of early Greek philosophy?
Explanatory and Systematic
Coherent and Argumentative
Critical and Unconventional
Stupid and Boring
According to Democritus, when we consider a particular course of action, we should aim at...
Pleasure
Cheerfulness
Knowledge
Truth
Which of the following is not a translation of archê?
First principle
Origin
Source
Account
Which early modern philosopher was a numerical monist?
Descartes
Leibniz
Spinoza
Kant
Pythagoras' cup was designed to encourage which virtue?
Courage
Temperance
Piety
Justice
Who succeeded Aristotle as the head of the Lyceum?
Simplicius
Diogenes
Theophrastus
Polyphemus
Which Presocratic invoked the Muses?
Xenophanes
Parmenides
Empedocles
Anaxagoras
