Plato found the Academy in:____________?

Related Mcqs:

1. After years of travel and study, Plato founded the Academy in:__________?

   A. 357 B.C.
   B. 367 B.C.
   C. 377 B.C.
   D. 387 B.C.

2. Which Academy colleague left with Aristotle after Plato’s death and accompanied him in some of his travels?

   A. Xenocrates
   B. Antipater
   C. Pixodarus
   D. Hermeias

3. Who assumed leadership of the Academy after Plato’s death?

   A. Hermeias
   B. Xenocrates
   C. Eudemus
   D. Speusippus

4. Specially for Plato’s writings referring to Socrates, it is not always clear which ideas brought forward by Socrates (or his friends) actually belonged to Socrates and which of these may have been new additions or elaborations by Plato- this is known as the:

   A. Socratic Problem
   B. Platoic Problem
   C. Soitic Problem
   D. Aristocratic Problem

5. Especially for Plato’s writings referring to Socrates, it is not always clear which ideas brought forward by Socrates (or his friends) actually belonged to Socrates and which of these may have been new additions or elaborations by, Plato – this is known as the:

   A. Socratic Problem
   B. Platonic Problem
   C. Soitic Problem
   D. Aristocratic Problem

6. _______ was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world:

   A. Plato
   B. Aristotle
   C. Socrates is cold-hearted
   D. None of these

7. _________ was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first Institution of higher learning in the Western world:

   A. Plato
   B. Aristotle
   C. Socrates
   D. None of these

8. Above the entrance to his Academy was the following quote, ‘let none who has not learned ______ enter here. What goes in the blank’:

   A. Physics
   B. Geometry
   C. Astronomy
   D. Arithmetic

9. Through his portrayal in Plato’s dialogues, Socrates has become renowned for his contribution to the field of:____________?

   A. Ethics
   B. Economics
   C. Chemistry
   D. None of these

10. According to Plato, Socrates mother was:____________?

    A. Phaenarete
    B. Zenexenus
    C. Lamprocles
    D. None of these