Question: How is Aristophanes’ Clouds an unfair portrait of Socrates?

Answer Choices:
It portrays him as a lecherous old man.

It portrays him as a boy Epicurean.

It portrays him as a buffoonish Sophist.

It portrays him as an angry militant.

Answer: It portrays him as a buffoonish Sophist.

 

Question: What is the first step in the Socratic Method?

Answer Choices:
Socrates poses a question.

Socrates questions the response.

A companion revises an answer.

A companion gives an answer.

Answer: Socrates poses a question.

 

Question: Which Hellenistic philosophy would say that we should only seek to control what is within our power to control?

Answer Choices:
Epicureanism

Hedonism

Utilitarianism

Stoicism

Answer: Stoicism

 

Question: Why does Socrates compare himself to a gadfly?

Answer Choices:
He is like a short-lived pest bothering others.

He feeds on the verbal refuse of his targets.

He flits from argument to argument.

He persuades and reproaches the people of Athens.

Answer: He persuades and reproaches the people of Athens.

 

Question: Which Hellenistic philosophy would say that a good life is a life free of trouble?

Answer Choices:
Epicureanism

Skepticism

Stoicism

Deontology

Answer: Epicureanism

 

Question: Stoicism is difficult for many to achieve because it requires a complete lack of emotion.

Answer Choices:
True

False

Answer: False

 

Question: Epicurus advised against unnecessary extravagant desires because:

Answer Choices:
Such desires distract one from worshipping the gods.

Such desires are impossible to control once indulged.

Such desires invite pain.

Such desires cheapen human existence.

Answer: Such desires invite pain.

 

Question: Of the following, Socrates believed what about the soul?

Answer Choices:
It does not exist.

It is material.

It is immortal.

It was explained in the Christian Bible.

Answer: It is immortal.