Multiple Choice


1	What does the branch of philosophy called metaphysics study?
		A)	Knowledge
		B)	God
		C)	Beauty
		D)	Being


2	What does the branch of philosophy called epistemology study?
		A)	Knowledge
		B)	Being
		C)	Good and Bad
		D)	Politics


3	What are Thales, Anaximenes and Anaximander collectively known as?
		A)	The Atomists
		B)	The Pythagoreans
		C)	The Milesians
		D)	The Particle Theorists


4	According to Theano, what did Pythagoras claim?
		A)	Numbers are unreal.
		B)	Everything is in accordance with number.
		C)	Everything is made out of numbers.
		D)	Reality is totally material.


5	What was the essence of reality for Heraclitus?
		A)	Change
		B)	Permanence
		C)	Water
		D)	Apeiron.


6	What is reality according to a follower of Parmenidies?
		A)	One and changing.
		B)	One and unchanging.
		C)	Many and changing.
		D)	Many and unchanging.


7	What is the cause of change for Empedocles?
		A)	Nous.
		B)	Condensation and rarefaction.
		C)	Logos.
		D)	Love and strife.


8	What did Anaxagoras do?
		A)	He introduced the matter\mind distinction to philosophy.
		B)	He thought that the basic particles were indivisible.
		C)	He held that there were four different kinds of particles.
		D)	He believed that the particles were always in motion.


9	What did the Atomists do?
		A)	They rejected the void.
		B)	They rejected determinism.
		C)	They believed that the basic particles were infinitely divisible.
		D)	They distinguished between atomic properties and relational properties.


10	Which is a theme common to all the pre-Socratics?
		A)	Nothing changes.
		B)	Everything is made of particles.
		C)	The experienced world is a manifestation of a more fundamental underlying reality.
		D)	True reality is unknowable.

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