A) To replace Greek philosophy with Roman theology B) To pass on Greco-Roman culture to future generations C) To critique the Roman Empire D) To translate the Bible into Latin
A) Euclid and Ptolemy B) Nicomachus and Socrates C) Porphyry and Iamblichus D) Aristotle and Plato
A) The ethics of Roman governance B) The astronomy of planetary motion C) The problem of universals D) The geometry of shapes
A) The speed of light B) The morality of Roman warfare C) The ontological nature of universal ideas D) The mathematical value of pi
A) De interpretation B) Categories C) Isagoge D) De institutione arithmetica
A) It was left unfinished B) It was lost in a fire C) It was translated into Arabic D) It was never written
A) Euclid and Ptolemy B) Nicomachus and Aristotle C) Porphyry and Iamblichus D) Plato and Socrates
A) A translation of a Greek text into Latin B) A commentary on Aristotelian philosophy C) A manuscript where the original text has been scraped off to allow for new writing D) A library containing only Greek manuscripts
A) The decline of the Roman Empire and lack of readers B) The preference for Sanskrit C) A religious ban on the Greek language D) The destruction of all Greek manuscripts
A) Roman aristocrats B) Irish monks C) Egyptian scribes D) Islamic scholars
A) Physics and Metaphysics B) Ethics and Rhetoric C) De interpretation and Categories D) Poetics and Politics
A) Modular arithmetic B) Geometric proofs C) Calculus D) Algebraic equations
A) A lack of ink B) Religious mandates to prioritize new texts C) A desire to erase history D) The expense and scarcity of writing materials
A) The decline of the printing press B) The rise of the Islamic Empire C) A shift toward Latin-only education in the East D) The Mongol invasions
A) Boethius's Logic B) Aristotle's Organon C) Averroes's Commentary D) Plato's Timaeus
A) Marius Victorinus B) Hunayn Ibn Ishaq C) Michael Scot D) Boethius
A) Marius Victorinus B) Henry Aristippus C) James of Venice D) William of Moerbeke
A) Metaphysics B) Categories C) On Interpretation D) Posterior Analytics
A) On the Soul B) Physics C) Politics D) Categories
A) James of Venice B) Boethius C) Michael Scot D) Averroes
A) recensio nova B) translatio nova C) translatio vetus D) Corpus Aristotelicum
A) Meno B) The Republic C) Phaedo D) Timaeus
A) Averroes B) Calcidius C) Marsilio Ficino D) Henry Aristippus
A) The translation by James of Venice B) The translation by Michael Scot C) The translation by Calcidius D) The translation by Boethius
A) 4th century B) 12th century C) 6th century D) 14th century
A) Hebrew B) Arabic C) German D) French
A) The Crusades B) The Great Schism C) The Black Death D) The Hundred Years' War
A) Poggio Bracciolini B) Francesco Filelfo C) Poliziano D) Manuel Chrysoloras
A) Lorenzo Valla B) George of Trebizond C) Marsilio Ficino D) Guarino da Verona
A) Spain B) Egypt C) Armenia D) Britain
A) The University of Paris B) Pope Nicholas V C) The Holy Roman Emperor D) The Knights Templar
A) Lorenzo Valla B) Poliziano C) Poggio Bracciolini D) Manuel Chrysoloras
A) Arab scholarship B) Syriac scholarship C) Persian scholarship D) Latin scholarship
A) Rome, Italy B) Moerbeke, Belgium C) Paris, France D) Oxford, England
A) Dominican B) Benedictine C) Franciscan D) Jesuit
A) 1200–15 B) 1220–40 C) 1280–95 D) 1259–72
A) Homer B) Plato C) Socrates D) Aristotle
A) Plato's Republic B) Aristotle's Metaphysics C) The Physics of Proclus D) Proclus' Elementatio Theologica
A) Pope Urban IV B) Albert the Great C) Aristotle D) Thomas Aquinas
A) A signed contract of translation B) Numerous letters from Aquinas C) Joint memoirs written by them D) No contemporary record
A) 1270–75 B) 1240–44 C) 1261–65 D) 1250–55
A) 1255 B) 1260 C) 1272 D) 1264
A) Hostility toward classical learning B) Preference for Sanskrit works C) Shortage of competent translators D) Lack of available texts
A) Foreign universities B) Religious Caliphs C) Byzantine government officials D) Wealthy business patrons
A) Anushirvan B) The Byzantine Emperor C) Al-Mansur D) The Umayyad Caliphs
A) Cairo B) Baghdad C) Damascus D) Cordoba
A) Al-Mansur B) Harun al-Rashid C) Cyrus the Great D) Anushirvan (Chosroes I)
A) Al-Ma'mun B) Al-Mansur C) Ibn Sina D) Al-Kindi
A) Al-Kindi B) Al-Razi C) Ibn Sina D) Al-Farabi
A) Al-Kindi B) Al-Razi C) Ibn Rushd D) Al-Farabi
A) Zoroastrianism B) Neoplatonism C) Avicennism D) Averroism
A) Damascus B) Alexandria C) Persia D) Constantinople
A) They were viewed as serving political ends B) They contradicted Islamic geometry C) They were considered too difficult to translate D) They were written in dead languages
A) Averroism B) Avicennism C) Neoplatonism D) The House of Wisdom
A) Ibn Rushd B) Al-Farabi C) Al-Kindi D) Al-Ghazali
A) The Center for Greek Humanities B) The Academy of Alexandria C) The Baghdad School of Logic D) Bayt al-Hikma
A) Greece B) Italy C) France D) Spain
A) Ibn Bajjah B) Al-Ghazali C) Ibn Rushd D) Al-Hakam II
A) Averroes B) Al-Ghazali C) Thomas Aquinas D) Plotinus
A) The Commentator B) The Philosopher C) The Translator D) The Neoplatonist
A) Politicians B) Poets C) Philosophers D) Soldiers
A) Avempace B) Plotinus C) Averroes D) Al-Hakam
A) Supportive B) Enthusiastic C) Indifferent D) Suspicious
A) Alcuin B) Boethius C) Raymond de Sauvetât D) Thomas Aquinas
A) Paris B) London C) Toledo D) Constantinople
A) Poetry and art B) Medicine or astronomy C) Geography and history D) Politics and law |