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Reading Questions

Choose the best answer.

1. According to the article, what was Aristotle’s father’s occupation?

a. poet
b. physician
c. teacher

d. philosopher

2. What information was given first in the article?
a. Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who was a student of Plato.

b. Aristotle did not write only on philosophy, but on other subjects as well.
c. When he turned eighteen, he left his birthplace of Thrace and went to
Athens to study under Plato.
d. He established his own school in Athens after several years of teaching
Alexander.

3. Why was the young Aristotle able to have an aristocratic education?
a. Aristotle was born into royalty.
b. Aristotle was an adopted son of Plato.

c. Aristotle’s father was the king’s physician.
d. Aristotle was considered aristocratic by Alexander the Great.

4. By reading the article, what can you say is the difference between

Aristotle and Plato?
a. Aristotle was a philosopher and Plato was a teacher.
b. Aristotle taught Alexander the Great and Plato taught Aristotle.

c. Aristotle was Greek and Plato was Roman.
d. all of the above

5. Without Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle what would not exist?

a. poetry
b. the foundation for science
c. the foundation for Western philosophy
d. all of the above

6. Which sentence uses the word subjects in the same way it is used in
the article?
a. The king’s subjects trembled when the king would look at them.
b. Jason studied four subjects in college.

c. The subject of conversation was about religion.
d. Grace found a subject for complaint.

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