PART ONE
I. Read the following unfinished statements or questions carefully. For each unfmished statement or question, four suggested answers marked [ A ], [ B ], [ C ] and [ D ] are given. Choose the one which best completes the statement or answers the question by blackening the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points, 2 points each)
1. Who were considered as people by the ancient Athens?
A. Women citizens B. Adults
C. Adult male citizens D. Foreigners and children
2. Which of the following is true about Dialogues?
A. Dialogues was a book written by Socrates.
B. Dialogues was a record of life of Plato.
C. Dialogues was a record of Socrates written by Plato.
D. Dialogues was a record of Socrates's sayings by his followers.
3. The great deed that David performed was ____.
A. he took the Hebrews back to Canaan
B. he killed Goliath, the philistine giant
C. he went to the top of the mountain in Sinai to receive message from (~d
D. none of the above
4. In the early clays of Christianity, it was a religion of _____.
A. the rich B. the poor
C. the ruling class D. all people
5. Which of the following statements about knighthood is not true?
A. A nobleman was born a knight.
B. Knighthood had to be earned.
C. One had to be trained in order to become a knight.
D. After being dubbed a knight, he had to observe the Code of Chivalry.
6. The Inquisition was ______
A. a church court set up to try heretics B. an organization for church investigation
C. a court in many kingdoms D. the decision - making body of the church
7. Art to Michelangelo was a means by which._____.
A. he expressed his opposition to the despotic rule
B. he made inquiry into the reality
C. he expressed his vision of man
D. B and C
8. Counter- Reformation means that the Roman Catholic Church _____.
A. suppressed the Reformation movement by force
B. refused to accept any reform
C. re - established itself as a dynamic force in European affairs by introducing reforms and improvements
D. ganged up with the Spanish monarchy to set up the Inquisition
9. Kepler's contribution to astronomy is
A. his discovery of the law of inertia
B. his discovery of the Ptolemaic system
C. his discovery of the three laws of planetary motion
D. none of the above
10. In Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke stated that .__
A. all our knowledge sprang from experience
B. knowledge was power
C. every man was enemy to every man
D. the world was made up of simple, active substances
11. The symbolic event of the French Revolution in 1789 was _____.
A. the issuance of the Declaration of Independence
B. the founding of the First Republic
C. the seizure of the Bastille
D. the publication of The Spirit of the Laws
12. Voltaire was noted for his_____.
A. wit B. satire
C. passion D. A and B
13. In Critique of Pure Reason, Kant argued that________.
A. knowledge is the joint product of both sense and reason
B. creation is never complete; it is ever going on
C. virtue can be sustained without religious belief
D. man's greatest ills are not natural but are made by man himself