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Quiz about Sophies World The History of Philosophy

Sophie's World: The History of Philosophy Quiz

Have you read Jostein Gaarder's novel, "Sophie's World"? Its one of my favorite books. Let's see how much you know about it and the history of philosophy. Good luck!

A multiple-choice quiz by airsammy51. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
airsammy51

Time
5 mins

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Multiple Choice

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204,627

Updated
Dec 03 21

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10

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Question 1 of 10

1. What Pre-Socratic philosopher "thought that our world was only one of a myriad of worlds that evolve and dissolve in something he called the boundless"? Hint

Anaximander

Anaximenes

Thales

Empedocles

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Question 2 of 10

2. According to this Greek philosopher, the human body is composed of three parts: the head, the chest, and the abdomen. Hint

Socrates

Democritus

Aristotle

Plato

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Question 3 of 10

3. What 15th century central figure of the Renaissance exclaimed, "Know thyself, O divine lineage in mortal guise!"? Hint

Pico della Mirandola

Giordano Bruno

Gabriel Malagrida

Marsilio Ficino

4. To this 17th century philosopher, "God did not create the world in order to stand outside it. He believed that God is the world and the world is in God." His work, "Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated", is perhaps his most important. Hint

Ren� Descartes

Baruch Spinoza

John Locke

Thomas Hobbes

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Question 5 of 10

5. The leading rationalists of the seventeenth century included Ren� Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, and which of the following? Hint

David Hume

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

John Locke

George Berkeley

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Question 6 of 10

6. What 18th century empiricist philosophized that "God is 'intimately present in our consciousness, causing to exist for us the profusion of ideas and perceptions that we are constantly subject to'?" Hint

George Berkeley

John Locke

David Hume

David Hartley

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Question 7 of 10

7. What historical philosopher from the 18th century had "great significance for the Romantics and believed that history is characterized by continuity, evolution, and design?" Hint

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling

Henrik Steffens

Johann Gottfried von Herder

Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg

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Question 8 of 10

8. Rules that can be applied to reflecting on a situation in which "a tension arises between two opposite ways of thinking but is then resolved by a proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view" were termed dialectic process by which 19th century philosopher? Hint

Karl Marx

Friedrich Nietzsche

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Martin Heidegger

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Question 9 of 10

9. This 19th century philosopher believed that there were three different forms of life, which he called stages. He called them the aesthetic stage, ethical stage, and religious stage. Hint

S�ren Kierkegaard

Eug�ne Ionesco

Albert Camus

Jean Paul Sartre

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Question 10 of 10

10. This 18th century French author "played a prominent role during the French Revolution by producing numerous brochures on social questions and several plays. She was beheaded in 1793 for daring to defend Louis XVI and oppose Robespierre." Hint

Olympe de Gouges

Hildegard of Bingen

Simone de Beauvoir

Sophie Amundsen

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What Pre-Socratic philosopher "thought that our world was only one of a myriad of worlds that evolve and dissolve in something he called the boundless"?

Answer: Anaximander

Gaarder writes that "according to Anaximander, because all created things are limited, that which comes before and after them must be 'boundless'". Thales proposed that everything came from water. Anaximenes suggested that everything came from "air" or "vapor". Empedocles believed that nature consisted of four elements or "roots": earth, air, fire, and water.

2. According to this Greek philosopher, the human body is composed of three parts: the head, the chest, and the abdomen.

Answer: Plato

Gaarder explains that in Plato's "Republic", his dialogue suggests that the state should be governed by philosophers. His explanation for this is based on the construction of the human body.

3. What 15th century central figure of the Renaissance exclaimed, "Know thyself, O divine lineage in mortal guise!"?

Answer: Marsilio Ficino

Ficino is best known for his work as a translator of classic works, an author, and a philosopher. Another central figure of the Renaissance, Mirandola wrote the "Oration on the Dignity of Man". Malagrida was a Jesuit missionary who wrote about his opinion on the cause of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake in his work, "An Opinion on the True Cause of the Earthquake." Bruno was a 16th century philosopher who was declared a heretic and burned at the stake.

Answer: Baruch Spinoza

Spinoza was a panthiest and belonged to the Jewish community of Amsterdam, but was excommunicated for heresy. His work was influenced by Ren� Descartes and Thomas Hobbes.

5. The leading rationalists of the seventeenth century included Ren� Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, and which of the following?

Answer: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Leibniz was a German philosopher, mathematician, and logician who is most well known for inventing differential and integral calculus. Hume, Locke, and Berkeley were all empiricists.

Answer: George Berkeley

Gaarder adds that "Berkeley thought all our ideas have a cause beyond our consciousness, but that this cause is not of a material nature".

7. What historical philosopher from the 18th century had "great significance for the Romantics and believed that history is characterized by continuity, evolution, and design?"

Answer: Johann Gottfried von Herder

Herder was a German philosopher who showed that "each historical epoch had its own intrinsic value and each nation its own character or 'soul'". Steffens was a Norwegian-born naturalist who went to Copenhagen in 1801 to lecture on German Romanticism. Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg, better known as Novalis, was one of the greatest artistic geniuses from the Romantic period in Germany. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling was a German idealist and romantic philosopher.

Answer: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The German philosopher Hegel termed the three stages of knowledge - thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. "Nietzsche reacted against Hegel's philosophy and German 'historicism'." Heidegger was influenced by the works of both Hegel and the existentialist Soren Kierkegaard.

9. This 19th century philosopher believed that there were three different forms of life, which he called stages. He called them the aesthetic stage, ethical stage, and religious stage.

Answer: S�ren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard, the famous Danish existentialist, also said that truth is 'subjective'. Camus was a 20th century French novelist, essayist, and playwright who wrote a number of works, including 'The Myth of Sisyphus.' Ionesco was a 20th century playwright. Sartre was a 20th century French existentialist.

Answer: Olympe de Gouges

Olympe de Gouges published "Declaration of the Rights of Women" in 1791. Simone de Beauvoir was a French existentialist writer and worked with Jean Paul Sartre. Hildegard of Bingen was a 12th century nun in the Rhine Valley who also served as a preacher, author, physician, botanist, and naturalist. Sophie Amundsen is the main character of the "Sophie's World", of course! All quotes used were taken from "Sophie's World". I hope you enjoyed my quiz!

Source: Author airsammy51

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