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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (BA Philosophy) .
| 1. |
Orphism greatly influenced -------------------- |
| A. | aristotle |
| B. | plato |
| C. | socrates |
| D. | thales |
| Answer» C. socrates | |
| 2. |
------------- subscribed to the doctrine of the transmigration of the souls. |
| A. | orphism |
| B. | fideism |
| C. | occultism |
| D. | narcissm |
| Answer» A. orphism | |
| 3. |
According to Thales universe is fundamentally ------------ |
| A. | water |
| B. | air |
| C. | fire |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. water | |
| 4. |
For ------------------ primary matter was boundless something. |
| A. | anaximander |
| B. | thales |
| C. | anaximenes |
| D. | heraclitus |
| Answer» A. anaximander | |
| 5. |
Greek philosophy begins as an enquiry into the --------- world. |
| A. | subjective |
| B. | objective |
| C. | social |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. objective | |
| 6. |
According to ----------- the world arises from water and return to water. |
| A. | anaximander |
| B. | thales |
| C. | anaximenes |
| D. | protagoras |
| Answer» B. thales | |
| 7. |
------------ held the view that the ultimate stuff of the universe is boundless something. |
| A. | anaximander |
| B. | thales |
| C. | anaximenes |
| D. | protagoras |
| Answer» A. anaximander | |
| 8. |
-------- is the fundamental thing underlying the universe according to Anaximenes. |
| A. | air |
| B. | fire |
| C. | water |
| D. | number |
| Answer» A. air | |
| 9. |
---------- stated that all things are full of gods . |
| A. | anaximander |
| B. | thales |
| C. | anaximenes |
| D. | protagoras |
| Answer» B. thales | |
| 10. |
------------- held that earth is cylindrical in shape and moves freely in space. |
| A. | anaximander |
| B. | thales |
| C. | anaximenes |
| D. | protagoras |
| Answer» A. anaximander | |
| 11. |
------------ calls his infinite boundless matter God. |
| A. | anaximander |
| B. | thales |
| C. | anaximenes |
| D. | protagoras |
| Answer» A. anaximander | |
| 12. |
According to ------------ the primary air is regulated by the opposed principles of condensation and rarefaction. |
| A. | anaximander |
| B. | thales |
| C. | anaximenes |
| D. | protagoras |
| Answer» C. anaximenes | |
| 13. |
----------- declared that whatever exists,exists in number. |
| A. | protogoras |
| B. | pythagoras |
| C. | plato |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» B. pythagoras | |
| 14. |
-------------tried to show that things are numbers in some arbitrary manner. |
| A. | eleatics |
| B. | milesians |
| C. | samoans |
| D. | pythagoreans |
| Answer» D. pythagoreans | |
| 15. |
According to ------------- change alone is real , and manyness and changes are unreal. |
| A. | heraclitus |
| B. | parmenides |
| C. | plato |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» B. parmenides | |
| 16. |
--------- holds the identity of thought and being. |
| A. | heraclitus |
| B. | parmenides |
| C. | plato |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» B. parmenides | |
| 17. |
-----------belongs to the Eleatic school. |
| A. | heraclitus |
| B. | parmenides |
| C. | plato |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» B. parmenides | |
| 18. |
------- is the sole reality according to Parmenides. |
| A. | being |
| B. | not-being |
| C. | becoming |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. being | |
| 19. |
According to Parmenides the world that presented to us through senses is -----. |
| A. | being |
| B. | not-being |
| C. | real |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. not-being | |
| 20. |
------------ makes the distinction between sense and reason. |
| A. | parmenides |
| B. | heraclitus |
| C. | protagoras |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» A. parmenides | |
| 21. |
----------- is the doctrine that the sense world is an appearence |
| A. | idealism |
| B. | realism |
| C. | materialism |
| D. | monism |
| Answer» A. idealism | |
| 22. |
According to ----------- only being is , becoming is not at all. |
| A. | heraclitus |
| B. | pythagoreans |
| C. | eleatics |
| D. | parmenides |
| Answer» C. eleatics | |
| 23. |
According to ------------- being and not being are in everything at one and the same time. |
| A. | heraclitus |
| B. | pythagoreans |
| C. | eleatics |
| D. | parmenides |
| Answer» A. heraclitus | |
| 24. |
For ----------- both being and not being are equally real . |
| A. | heraclitus |
| B. | pythagoreans |
| C. | eleatics |
| D. | parmenides |
| Answer» A. heraclitus | |
| 25. |
According to ------------- being has not being in it. |
| A. | heraclitus |
| B. | pythagoreans |
| C. | eleatics |
| D. | parmenides |
| Answer» A. heraclitus | |
| 26. |
----------- was a contemporary of Parmenides. |
| A. | heraclitus |
| B. | pythagoreans |
| C. | eleatics |
| D. | parmenides |
| Answer» A. heraclitus | |
| 27. |
According to ------------- everything in the universe has in it its own opposites. |
| A. | heraclitus |
| B. | pythagoreans |
| C. | eleatics |
| D. | parmenides |
| Answer» A. heraclitus | |
| 28. |
According to Heraclitus the ultimate kind of matter is -------- . |
| A. | water |
| B. | fire |
| C. | air |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. fire | |
| 29. |
The Ionian thinkers were --------- . |
| A. | dualistic |
| B. | monistic |
| C. | pluralistic |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. monistic | |
| 30. |
The Greek thinkers who drew our attension to proportion, order and harmony are --------- . |
| A. | pythagoreans |
| B. | eleatics |
| C. | heraclitus |
| D. | parmenides |
| Answer» A. pythagoreans | |
| 31. |
------------------- laid emphasis on vegetarianism. |
| A. | pythagoreans |
| B. | eleatics |
| C. | heraclitus |
| D. | parmenides |
| Answer» A. pythagoreans | |
| 32. |
------------------------laid emphasis on asceticism. |
| A. | pythagoreans |
| B. | eleatics |
| C. | heraclitus |
| D. | parmenides |
| Answer» A. pythagoreans | |
| 33. |
------------------ practiced a reformed kind of orphic religion. |
| A. | pythagoreans |
| B. | eleatics |
| C. | heraclitus |
| D. | parmenides |
| Answer» A. pythagoreans | |
| 34. |
-------------------- founded an order in which men and women were considered equal. |
| A. | pythagoras |
| B. | eleatics |
| C. | heraclitus |
| D. | parmenides |
| Answer» A. pythagoras | |
| 35. |
According to -------------- the earth revolves round the central fire. |
| A. | heracletus |
| B. | eleatics |
| C. | parmenides |
| D. | pythagoreans |
| Answer» D. pythagoreans | |
| 36. |
Truth lies in reason and not in the world of sense is the fundamental position of ------ . |
| A. | realism |
| B. | materialism |
| C. | idealism |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. idealism | |
| 37. |
For ------- there is no past, no present, no future. |
| A. | being |
| B. | not-being |
| C. | both |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. being | |
| 38. |
Pre – sophistic philosophy is -----------because it conceived nature as animate or alive. |
| A. | naturalistic |
| B. | ontological |
| C. | monistic |
| D. | hylozoistic |
| Answer» D. hylozoistic | |
| 39. |
Pre – sophistic philosophy is -----------because its attension is directed to nature. |
| A. | naturalistic |
| B. | ontological |
| C. | monistic |
| D. | hylozoistic |
| Answer» A. naturalistic | |
| 40. |
Pre – sophistic philosophy is ----------- , it enquires into the essence of things. |
| A. | naturalistic |
| B. | ontological |
| C. | monistic |
| D. | hylozoistic |
| Answer» B. ontological | |
| 41. |
Pre – sophistic philosophy is ----------- it seeks to explain phenomena by single principle |
| A. | naturalistic |
| B. | ontological |
| C. | monistic |
| D. | hylozoistic |
| Answer» C. monistic | |
| 42. |
Protagoras and Gorgias were ---------- |
| A. | sophists |
| B. | philosophers |
| C. | sages |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. sophists | |
| 43. |
“Man is the measure of all things” is the famous teachings of ------------- . |
| A. | socrates |
| B. | sophists |
| C. | protagoras |
| D. | gorgias |
| Answer» C. protagoras | |
| 44. |
For------------- knowledge is perception. |
| A. | protagoras |
| B. | socrates |
| C. | plato |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» A. protagoras | |
| 45. |
ho*mo mensura is the famous saying by |
| A. | socrates |
| B. | plato |
| C. | aristotle |
| D. | protagoras |
| Answer» D. protagoras | |
| 46. |
According to ------------ even if there is anything we cannot know it. |
| A. | gorgias |
| B. | aistotle |
| C. | plato |
| D. | socrates |
| Answer» A. gorgias | |
| 47. |
Protagoras was influenced by ---------- in propounding his epistemology. |
| A. | leucippus |
| B. | democritus |
| C. | gorgias |
| D. | socrates |
| Answer» B. democritus | |
| 48. |
------------- deny the universality of knowledge. |
| A. | socrates |
| B. | sophists |
| C. | plato |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. sophists | |
| 49. |
According to sophists ----------- can give us only relative knowledge. |
| A. | reason |
| B. | perception |
| C. | inference |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. perception | |
| 50. |
Which one of the following is not a dialogue by Plato |
| A. | meno |
| B. | republic |
| C. | phaedo |
| D. | poetics |
| Answer» D. poetics | |
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