Test Bank Answers Plato The Really Real Vaughn Ch.4

Chapter 4: Plato: The Really Real

Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 01

1) __________ is often considered the father of Western philosophy.

a. Thales

b. Socrates

c. Plato

d. Aristotle

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 02

2) Plato’s philosophical thinking is embodied in a series of __________.

a. dialogues

b. treatises

c. novels

d. poems

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 03

3) Unlike the Sophists, Plato believes that __________ knowledge is possible.

a. relative

b. objective

c. cultural

d. natural

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 04

4) Plato rejects skepticism, the view that __________.

a. man is the measure of all things

b. at least some knowledge is possible

c. societal values are worth little or nothing

d. we lack knowledge in some fundamental way

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 05

5) According to Plato’s analysis, knowledge is __________ true belief.

a. objective

b. necessary

c. justified

d. genuine

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 06

6) According to Plato, we acquire knowledge of reality by way of__________.

a. sense perception

b. reasoning

c. scientific experimentation

d. the method of hypothesis

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 07

7) According to Plato, sense perception provides us with __________.

a. mere opinion

b. infallible belief

c. merely relative knowledge

d. certain knowledge

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 08

8) Plato calls the objectively real, eternal, and abstract entities that serve as models or universals of higher knowledge, __________.

a. Templates

b. Figures

c. Shapes

d. Forms

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 09

9) According to Plato, the truly real world is the world of the __________ existing Forms.

a. dependently

b. independently

c. provisionally

d. plausibly

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 10

10) For Plato, the greatest Form is the Form of the __________.

a. Greatest

b. Best

c. Good

d. Virtuous

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 11

11) Plato argues that the soul is __________.

a. mortal

b. immortal

c. sensible

d. empirical

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 12

12) According to Plato’s affinity argument, the soul is most akin to __________ things.

a. dissoluble and non-intelligible

b. inconstant

c. uniform and unvarying

d. multiform

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 13

13) In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, prisoners believe what they perceive on the cave wall __________.

a. is real

b. is unreal

c. cannot be known

d. is insensible

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 14

14) From the time he is freed, until he finally becomes accustomed to being outside the cave, the prisoner experiences __________ and __________.

a. euphoria; perfect knowledge

b. confusion; pain

c. jubilation; uncertainty

d. fear; anger

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 15

15) The Allegory of the Cave can be interpreted as illustrating Plato’s __________ and __________.

a. aesthetics; views on punishment

b. political views; views on agriculture

c. metaphysics; epistemology

d. views on stories; views on allegories

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 16

16) According to Plato, the process of learning is a process of __________.

a. memory

b. calculation

c. recollection

d. intuition

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 17

17) According to Plato, there is/are __________ part(s) of the soul.

a. one

b. two

c. three

d. four

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 18

18) According to Plato, the spirited side of the soul __________.

a. is the intellectual part

b. is the part that is motivated to maximize honor, self-esteem, success, and winning

c. is the part that desires satisfaction of the bodily cravings for things like food and sleep

d. should govern our actions

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 19

19) A harmonious soul is a __________ soul.

a. just

b. dominating

c. clear

d. pure

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 20

20) Plato rejects the view that the __________ is better off than the __________.

a. moral person; immoral one

b. immoral person; moral one

c. Sophist; politician

d. politician; Sophist

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 21

21) According to Plato, a part of the soul’s harmony involves the appetitive part __________.

a. motivating a man to act confidently and satisfy basic needs

b. pushing him to achieve success, honor, and recognition

c. ruling wisely over appetite and spirit

d. ensuring a balance among the three parts

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 22

22) In the Republic, Plato argues that the only kind of society that can ensure people get their due is a __________.

a. meritocracy

b. democracy

c. theocracy

d. plutocracy

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 23

23) A system of rule by those most qualified to govern is known as a(n) __________.

a. plutocracy

b. democracy

c. meritocracy

d. oligarchy

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 24

24) According to Plato, a part of the soul’s harmony involves the rational part __________.

a. motivating a man to act confidently and satisfy basic needs

b. pushing him to achieve success, honor, and recognition

c. ruling wisely over appetite and spirit

d. ensuring a balance among the three parts

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 25

25) According to Plato, a part of the soul’s harmony involves the spirited part __________.

a. motivating a man to act confidently and satisfy basic needs

b. pushing him to achieve success, honor, and recognition

c. ruling wisely over appetite and spirit

d. ensuring a balance among the three parts

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 26

26) Happiness is possible when __________.

a. the soul experiences internal strife

b. each part of the soul seeks and finds complete satisfaction

c. reason completely suppresses appetite and spirit

d. the balance, stability, and integration of the inner parts of ourselves dispel internal conflict

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 27

27) Socrates uses a(n) __________ example to demonstrate the theory of recollection to Meno.

a. geology

b. politics

c. geometry

d. agriculture

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 28

28) Plato thinks that __________ should govern.

a. warriors

b. farmers

c. philosopher-kings

d. politicians

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 29

29) In the Allegory of the Cave, sunlight represents __________.

a. metaphysical truth

b. physical truth

c. fire

d. things outside the cave

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 30

30) As the prisoner makes his way out of the cave, he begins to see that __________.

a. things like statues are dependent on fire for their reality

b. things closer to the outside of the cave are more real than those closer to the back

c. things like statues are dependent on their shadows for reality

d. the things inside the cave must not have any relation to whatever is outside

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 31

31) For his republic, Plato envisions an aristocracy of rich, landed, and well born individuals.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 32

32) The appetitive part of the soul, according to Plato, should rule the other parts.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 33

33) A harmonious soul is one in which reason rules the other parts.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 34

34) Plato argues that the soul is composed of four parts.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 35

35) The highest and greatest Form is the Form of the Good.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 36

36) According to Plato, all knowledge is innate.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 37

37) Plato argues that some, but not all, knowledge is derived from sense experience.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 38

38) Plato’s Forms are objectively real, eternal, abstract entities that serve as models or universals of higher knowledge.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 39

39) Philosopher kings govern in Plato’s republic.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 40

40) Plato conceived of Forms as properties that can be shared by several particular things.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 41

41) Plato’s concept of two realities greatly influenced Christian doctrine.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 42

42) Plato established a school called the Agora.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 43

43) The objects of knowledge, according to Plato, are ascertained exclusively through sense experience.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 44

44) In Plato’s Republic, Thrasymachus argues that it is better to be just than unjust.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 45

45) Plato identifies those moved by appetites as producers.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 46

46) Plato argues in favor of democracy.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 47

47) Initially, the servant boy in the Meno believes he knows, but does not.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 48

48) The theory of forms was also defended by Plato’s most well-known student, Aristotle.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 49

49) Plato argues that the intellect is not worth much without the senses to guide it.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 50

50) Thrasymachus thinks the unjust person will fare better than the just person.

a. True

b. False