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