HIEU 201 Quiz 4 Greek Thought solutions complete answers

HIEU 201 Quiz 4 Greek Thought solutions complete answers

 

Socrates' method of inquiry, dialectics, involved

          a. a dialogue between individuals, meant to root out illogical assumptions and arrive at clearly defined ideas.          

          b. the withdrawal of the individual from society, in order to facilitate private contemplation.    

          c. analysis that was based on the assumption that human beings are fundamentally irrational. 

          d. a process through which an individual cleared him or herself of all negative thoughts.       

 

Which of the following is NOT true of Greek medicine as practiced by Hippocratic physicians?

          a. It was influenced by the thought of the early Greek cosmologists.    

          b. It involved the classification of patients' symptoms and predictions of the course of their disease.   

          c. It included detailed recording of the observation of ill patients.       

          d. It embraced supernatural and magical explanations and cures for disease.

 

In contrast to the Mesopotamians and the Egyptians, the Greeks

          a. reluctantly embraced monarchy as required for a just state.  

          b. created civic politics and political freedom.   

          c. lacked a sense of individual worth.   

          d. never experienced political tyranny.

 

The development of rational thought in Greece

          a. represented a significant advance from Near Eastern mythopoeic culture but did not result in the elimination of myth from Greek life and thought.  

          b. was limited in that reason was applied to the physical world, but not to human activities.    

          c. represents a smooth continuation of trends that began in the Near East.     

          d. was completed when Plato and Aristotle eliminated all mythical modes of thought from their philosophy.

 

Greek dramatists

          a. believed individuals lacked free will in making decisions.      

          b. omitted from their works rational reflection, focusing instead on characters as passive victims.        

          c. rejected the idea of an inner logic in the universe.    

          d. explored both the weaknesses and the courage of human beings.

 

Which of the following is NOT true of the Greek historian Herodotus?

          a. He attempted to examine the histories of the Greeks and other societies dispassionately, without prejudice.          

          b. He valued the study and preservation of the past.   

          c. He eliminated all references to the gods in his writing.        

          d. He demonstrated a cautious and critical attitude toward his sources.

 

Plato's political writings

          a. advocate a military dictatorship in which the strongest would maintain law and order.        

          b. reflect his criticism of Athenian democracy.   

          c. reject the idea that women should have equal access with men to positions of power.        

          d. praise the virtues of democracy over all other forms of government.

 

Socrates believed that the central concern of the individual should be to

          a. attain a deeper knowledge of the matter and structure of the natural world. 

          b. perfect one's character and achieve moral excellence.         

          c. pursue fame and power within the political life of the polis.  

          d. contemplate the gods and seek immortality.

 

The Sophists' interest in human and social concerns

          a. emphasized the importance of traditional religion, government, and law.     

          b. was based on an emotional interpretation of values and institutions. 

          c. reflected their rational, secular, and analytical approach to philosophy.        

          d. was motivated primarily by their metaphysical concern for the place of human beings in the cosmos.          

 

Plato argued that truth

          a. resides in the world of Forms rather than the material world of experience.  

          b. is subjective, rather than a universal absolute.         

          c. is accessible through the senses.      

          d. is an imperfect and transitory reflection of our knowledge of the physical world.     

 

Anaximander rejected Thales' theory that water was the original substance and believed instead that ________ was the source of all things.

          a. fire   

          b. the Boundless        

          c. air    

          d. True Being   

 

The first Ionian philosophers were called cosmologists because they

          a. rejected the idea that universal principles guided the universe.        

          b. sought the underlying principles of the universe.     

          c. rejected the study of nature in favor of the study of the stars alone. 

          d. believed that everything in the world was an impermanent illusion.  

 

The Ionian philosophers believed that

          a. nature was manipulated by arbitrary and willful gods.         

          b. nature could be thoroughly and persuasively explained by earlier creation legends.  

          c. nature was governed by blind chance and therefore unknowable.    

          d. nature contains a hidden structure that is ascertainable by the human mind.

 

Thucydides' greatest work

          a. rejected philosophical approaches to history. 

          b. was a great compilation of myths and legends.       

          c. was a study of military tactics during the Persian War.         

          d. sought general principles that guide human nature, through an analysis of the Peloponnesian War.

 

Greek historians believed that history

          a. had the purpose of narrating the deeds of gods and their human agents, the god-kings.    

          b. is not the record of divine wrath or benevolence but the actions solely of human beings.    

          c. is composed of unique events, each with a special meaning. 

          d. was vital in marking progression over time.  

 

During the classical age of Greek art, art was

          a. realistic.       

          b. naturalistic.  

          c. idealistic.      

          d. all of the above

 

Aristophanes

          a. believed female characters on stage to be blasphemy.         

          b. admired the Athenian leadership of his time. 

          c. was the greatest writer of Greek tragic drama.         

          d. used comedy to critique Athenian society.

 

Greek drama

          a. avoided investigations of emotion.   

          b. emphasized only the sufferings and weaknesses of individuals.        

          c. avoided depictions of conflict between human beings and the gods. 

          d. originated in religious festivals.

 

Aristotle's theory of truth held that

          a. the Forms were located in a higher world outside of direct human experience.        

          b. philosophy offered no satisfactory way of investigating the natural world.    

          c. Parmenides was right when he rejected information derived from the senses.         

          d. the Forms existed in things themselves.

 

Parmenides' fundamental belief was

          a. that the cosmos and all that is within it is one, eternal, and unchanging.     

          b. that the senses were the only reliable source of information about nature.   

          c. that the universe underwent change and development over time.    

          d. that the matter in the world could be destroyed and reformed an infinite number of times.