Multiple Choice


1	What do the ancient Assyrian dream tablets depict that suggests self knowledge?
		A)	A complete alphabet
		B)	Examples of deductive reasoning
		C)	Shame of finding oneself naked in public
		D)	Scenes of falling and flying


2	Which of the following people adopted a holistic approach to medicine?
		A)	Asclepius
		B)	Alcmaeon
		C)	Hippocrates
		D)	Both B and C


3	Who was likely the first person to clearly describe melancholia, mania, paranoia and hysteria?
		A)	Alcmaeon
		B)	Socrates
		C)	Galen
		D)	Hippocrates


4	Which treatment for the mentally ill was most directly inspired by a theory of Hippocrates?
		A)	Whirling Cure
		B)	Sensory Deprivation
		C)	Bloodletting
		D)	Talk therapy


5	A person who died from exsanguination:
		A)	bled to death
		B)	committed suicide
		C)	died of natural causes
		D)	died from the Sacred Disease


6	Hippocrates formulated a specific theory to explain which motivation?
		A)	Hunger
		B)	Thirst
		C)	Sexual
		D)	Achievement


7	We owe thanks to _______________ for reviving interest in the works of Hippocrates.
		A)	Galen
		B)	Plato
		C)	Thales
		D)	Democritus


8	Galen’s studies of anatomy led him to conclude that:
		A)	all matter consists of atoms
		B)	species evolved via natural selection
		C)	the body is of divine design
		D)	the heart was the seat of consciousness


9	Which statement is most consistent with Galen’s view of the heart?
		A)	The heart contains the mind
		B)	A fire in the heart heats our blood
		C)	The heart acts as a pump to circulate blood
		D)	The heart consists of hypothetical atoms


10	Which of the following statements about Thales is/are true?
		A)	He used mathematics to predict a future event
		B)	He created a theory of harmony
		C)	He was the teacher of Alexander the Great
		D)	All of the above are true


11	Socrates could accurately be described as a(n):
		A)	empiricist
		B)	rationalist
		C)	post-Aristotelian
		D)	Both B and C


12	For Socrates, the search for truth requires:
		A)	looking inward, within the mind itself
		B)	becoming one with the cosmos
		C)	the identification of patterns in the environment
		D)	measurement of all things


13	Antiphon’s treatment of grief and melancholy involved:
		A)	bloodletting
		B)	Socratic dialogue
		C)	consulting priests
		D)	systematic desensitization


14	Socrates was found guilty of what crime?
		A)	Trying to put man in his place
		B)	Putting the human soul on a pair of scales
		C)	Undermining the religion of the state and corrupting youth
		D)	Advocating a heliocentric view of the universe


15	Plato described ______________ as “knowledge of that which always is.”
		A)	geometry
		B)	astronomy
		C)	theology
		D)	epistemology


16	In The Republic, Plato described a utopian society ruled by those with superior:
		A)	Appetite
		B)	Courage
		C)	Reason
		D)	Senses


17	Complete this analogy based on Plato’s beliefs: Reason:Head as _______:Abdomen.
		A)	Ignorance
		B)	Courage
		C)	Spirit
		D)	Appetite


18	Which ancient Greek philosopher described properties of memory, which we still consider important today?
		A)	Socrates
		B)	Plato
		C)	Aristotle
		D)	Epicurus


19	Which philosopher(s) could accurately be described as an empiricist?
		A)	Socrates
		B)	Plato
		C)	Aristotle
		D)	Both A and B


20	What idea of Aristotle’s was later included in Freud’s psychoanalytic theory?
		A)	Causality
		B)	Catharsis
		C)	Nativism
		D)	All of the Above

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