Group 005, Section 001 (Honors)

Here are the some questions and topics that were included in the posts for our group throughout the month of October. Hope this helps with the studying for the exam tomorrow. Good luck!

1) What kind of value did James say ideas needed in order to be useful?

A) High value
B) Cash value
C) New value

(Answer: B.)

2) Factual question: True or false?... Both Postmodernism and New Age philosophies have lost the search for truth, and by so doing they simply accept the flow of ideas that spreads across the globe.
(Answer: True.)

3) Factual question: True or false? Gnositicism has elements of spirituality and mysticism in it.
(Answer: True.)

4) Factual:
What era followed Hypatia's death?
1) The Industrial Revolution
2) The Renaissance
3) The Medieval Period
4) The Dark Ages
5) The Enlightenment
6) A period of secular philosophy
7) None of the above

(Answer: 4.)

5) Factual question: What is Averroes known as?
A) The prophet
B) The commentator
C) The physicist
D) Great Thinker
E) The translator
F) The Neoplatonist
G) The nudist
I) The religious philosopher

(Answer: B)

6) Factual question: What was Nicholas forced to do?
A) Drink poison
B) Admit to the Catholic Church that his philosophy was sacrilegious, and repent
C) Burn his writings
D) He was forced into exile.

(Answer: C)

7) A) He said that the planets circle the sun in ellipses
B) He said that the planets circle the sun in perfect circles, contradictory to the prior notion that everything in the universe circled the Earth instead
C) He developed a more accurate, yearly calendar that was based on the motions of the Sun and Earth
D) He said that the planets circle around the sun.
E) Copernicus was the first to introduce the concept that the universe was held in together by gravity.

(Answer: D.)