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

Another individual from the Platonic school, he initiated the study of conic sections – the hyperbola, the parabola and the ellipse. Who was he?

A. Menaechmus
B. Pedanius
C. Asclepiades
D. Alcmaeon

Plato’s writings mostly take the form of _______, in which knowledge is revealed as two characters ask and answer questions of each other:

A. Dialogues
B. Apology
C. Both (a) & (b)
D. None of these

Aside from developing the system of concentric spheres upon which the epicyclic Ptolemaic arrangement of the solar system was based, what other remarkable achievement was made by this great follower of Plato?

A. He first suggested that the solar system was sun-centered
B. He read all of aristotle’s work straight through without falling asleep
C. He estimated the diameter and the circumference of the earth accurately to within 1 mile
D. He estimated the solar year to be 365 days and six hours long

Which Platonic disciple suggested that the Earth turns on its axis every 24 hours and that the solar system might be heliocentric?

A. Herophilus
B. Heracleides
C. Hero
D. Erasistratus

A pupil of Plato’s great student, who developed the system of concentric spheres borrowed by Ptolemy, was this man who advanced the system of epicycles, adding an additional seven, laying the final groundwork for the system adopted by Aristotle and Ptolemy Who was he?

A. Eratosthenes
B. Callipus
C. Diophantus
D. Eppipides

_______ is one of the ‘big three’ in ancient Greek philosopher, along with Aristotle and Socrates:

A. Eratosthenes
B. Plato
C. Diophantus
D. Eppipides

________ argues that the wrong types of literature and music can corrupt the youth of Greece, and must therefore be strictly controlled:

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

Plato died at the age of:__________?

A. 76 years
B. 78 years
C. 79 years
D. 80 years

In Plato’s ‘The Republic”, who does Socrates suggest should rule over society?

A. The military
B. Nobody; no MAN should rule over any other MAN
C. An elected parliament
D. An elite group of ‘philosopherkings”