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1) Who said, "Virtue - all virute - is knowledge"? a. Socrates b. Xenophon c. Plato d. Aristotle
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2) Who said, "Virtue is sefficient for happiness"? a. Aristotle b. Socrates c. Plato d. Xenophon
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3) Who said, "I know that I know nothing"? a. Plato b. Aristotle c. Socrates d. Xenophon
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4) Which of the following has Meletus not accused Socrates of? a. Charging a fee for his teaching b. Inventing new deities c. Corrupting the youth d. Not recognizing the established gods
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5) How does Socrates suggest Euthyphro might help him in his case against Meletus? a. Euthyphro could speak in Socrates defense b. Euthyphro could persuade Meletus to drop his charges c. Euthyphro could teach Socrates about the art of rhetoric d. Euthyphro could teach Socrates about religious matters
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6) Which of the following is NOT part of the description of Meletus? a. He's not very smart b. He's has a hooked nose c. He's an unknown d. He has a sparse beard
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7) Which of the following is not the father or son of one of the others? a. Zeus b. Uranus c. Hesiod d. Kronos
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8) Why does Socrates not accept Euthyphro's definition that prosecuting criminals is holy? a. Because prosecuting criminals can often be an unholy act b. Because there are other acts which are also holy c. Because Euthyphro doesn't specify what kind of crinimals should be prosecuted d. Because Euthyphro doesn't specify what kind of punishment these criminals deserve
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9) What is the elenchus? a. A state of perplexity b. Cross-examination c. Deductive proof d. The Theory of Forms
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10) On which of the following questions might the gods disagree, according to Socrates? a. The relationship between the legs of a right triangle and its hypotenuse b. Plato's Theory of Forms c. Whether or not it is just to punish one's father d. The distance between Athens and Sparta
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11) On what grounds do we argue over whether or not someone should be punished, according to Socrates? a. We disagree about whether or not the person committed the crime as stated b. We disagree about whether or not that crime warrants pubishment c. We disagree about whether or not that crime warrants so harsh a pubishment d. We disagree about whether the person prosecuting has any right to prosecute, given the circumstances
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12) Which of the following claims is Euthyphro not committed to? a. Something is approved of by the gods because it gets approved of by the gods b. Something gets approved of by the gods because it is holy c. What is holy is what is approved of by the gods d. Something is holy because it is approved of by the gods
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13) Which of the following is an unwanted consequence of Euthyphro's reasoning? a. Something is approved of by the gods because it is holy b. Something gets approved of by the gods because it is holy c. What is holy is what is approved of by the gods d. Something is approved of by the gods because it gets approved of by the gods
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14) According to Rousseau, what is legitimate political authority based on? a. Slavery b. A social contract c. Nature d. Force
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15) What do people get in return for surrendering their freedom to an absolute monarch, according to Rousseau? a. Preservation b. Security c. Peace d. Nothing of any value
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16) Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born on: a. 28th June 1711 b. 28th June 1712 c. 26th June 1713 d. 28th June 1714
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17) Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born on: a. London, Britain b. Geneva, Switzerland c. Ermenonville, France d. None of these
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18) Jean-Jacques Rousseau died on: a. 14th July 1778 b. 12th July 1778 c. 2nd July 1778 d. 27th July 1778
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19) Rousseau married his mistress only after many years. He claimed he never loved her: a. TRUE b. FALSE
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20) How does Rousseau describe man in his primal natural state? a. A Noble Savage b. Solitary, nasty and brutish c. A blank slate d. Totally corrupted
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21) Rousseau felt that social living corrupted us leading to such ills as private property and social classes. Which of the following is his famous phrase arising from this reasoning? a. Workers of the world unite b. Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest c. Put the child in his place and keep him there d. Man was born free, but he is everywhere in chains
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22) What was Rousseau's remedy for the corruption and slavery of civilized society? a. A new social contract b. Democratic reforms c. Revolution d. Socialism
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23) In Rousseau's view, what would constitute true liberty? a. Free enterprise, unrestrained by government interference b. A Republic in which there is universal suffrage (for property owning males) c. Replacement of autocratic governments by Athenian style democracy d. Submission to the "general will" of the citizenry
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24) At the age of sixteen, when rightly accused of stealing from a wealthy employer how did Rousseau respond? a. He initially denied the crime but then admitted it and made restitution b. He blained a maid and remained silent when she was punished c. He immediately confessed d. He ran away but not before returning the stolen items
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25) Jean-Jacques Rousseau died at the age of: a. 68 years b. 66 years c. 60 years d. 78 years
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26) Jean-Jacques Rousseau died in: a. London, Britain b. Geneva, Switzerland c. Ermenonville, France d. None of these
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27) School Social contract theory is related with: a. Thomas Hobbes b. Jean-Jacques Rousseau c. Bob Woodward d. None of these
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28) Rousseau had a number of detractors among whom Rousseau himself should the included. What was the title of his seemingly candid autobiography? a. My Life and Times b. The Triumph of Reason c. If You're Paranoid, you only have to be right once d. The Confessions of Jean-Jacques rousseau
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29) Rousseau believed that man in the "state of nature" was naturally good. Still he admitted that a true state of nature probably existed except as an ideal, a standard for comparison. His mothod for dealing with this discrepancy between reality and theory was to: a. "Lay the facts aside, as they do not affect the question." b. He blamed a maid and remained silent when she was punished c. He immediately confessed d. He ran awa but not before returning the stolen items
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30) Why is the Leviathan called 'artificial'? a. It is outside of nature b. It is manufactured by humans c. It is only a fictional civilization d. It is outside of nature, and it is manufactured by humans
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31) What is the original source for the name "Leviathan"? a. Hobbes's Levisithan b. The of job c. John Milton's Paradise Lost d. Homer's Iliad
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32) How does matter move In Hobbes's philosophy? a. Matter moves itself b. Matter is animated by the spirit c. Metter moves only when pushed by other matter d. Matter Li directly controlled by God
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33) In the state of nature why will two natural men inevitably fight if they desire the same thing? a. They are naturally equal b. If they were altruistic they would be exploited c. Scarcity of resources d. All of the above
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34) Who wrote the book 'Palestine Peace Not Apartheid'? a. Gabriel A. Almond b. Jimmy Carter c. Bob Woodward d. Jan Crawford Greensburg
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35) Second Chance' book is written by : a. Morgan, Edmund S b. T.E. Cronin c. Jean-Jacques Rousseau d. Zbigniew Brzezinski
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36) Who wrote the book 'Supreme Conflict'? a. Jan Crawfod Greenburg b. Francis Fukuyama c. Catherine Boone d. Small Melvin
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37) "Black Rednecks and White Liberals' book is written by: a. Catherine Boone b. Horn, David Bayne c. Thomas Sowell d. None of these
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38) Who wrote the book 'Conservatives Without Conscience'? a. Thompson, J.W. And S.K. Padover b. T.E. Cronin c. Catherine Boone d. John Dean
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39) War on the Middle Class' book is written by: a. Lou Dobbs b. Gabriel A. Ahmond c. Horn, David Bayne d. None of these
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40) Who wrote the book 'American Theocracy'? a. Small, Melvin b. Kevin Phillips c. Gant, Michael M d. None of these
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41) "What else is being miserable," asks Socrates..... a. "than not to know the truth?" b. "than to seek virtue and fail to find it?" c. "than to desire bad things and secure them?" d. "than to be a sophist?"
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42) What mistake does Socrates eventually reveal in Meno's definition of virtue as the desire for beautiful things and the power to attain them? a. This is a list, not a definition b. The definition implicitly contains the term it is to define c. The definition does not correspond to an eidos d. The definition does not cover all cases of virtue
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43) where was Karl Marx born? a. Trier. Germany b. Berlin, Germany c. Bonn Germany d. None of these
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44) What degree did Karl Marx achieve in Berlin? a. Masters degree b. He did not graduate from university c. Doctoral degree d. None of these
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45) Which of the following goals is the immediate aim of the Communists? a. The unification of the proletariat into a ruling class, b. The overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy c. Both (a) & (b) d. None of these
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46) Who wrote the Communist Manifesto with Marx? a. Vladimir Lenin b. Joseph Stalin c. Friedrich Engels d. None of these
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47) Who is the author of "Human Rights and American Foreign Polley"? a. Thomas Hobbes b. Noam Chomsky c. Gilbert Achcar d. Bob Woodward
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48) Who is the author of after the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the construction of Imperial Ideology: a. Thomas Hobbes b. Noam Chomsky c. Gilbert Achcar d. Bob Woodward
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49) When is it justified for subjects to rebel against the sovereign? a. When the sovereign has committed crimes against the people b. When the sovereign is no longer popular and the people want to elect a new leader c. Never d. Both (a) & (b)
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50) What innate faculty prevents civilized man from breaking the social contract? a. Reason b. Fear c. Altruism d. Greed
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