Q 01/05

Whose Academy in Athens did Aristotle join at around eighteen and remain at for nearly twenty years?

A) Plato's

B) Zeno's

C) Pythagoras'

D) Socrates'

Answer · why

A) Plato's

His teacher reportedly nicknamed him "mind of the school".

Q 02/05

Which future conqueror did Aristotle tutor from 343 BC at the request of Philip II of Macedon?

A) Alexander the Great

B) Cyrus the Great

C) Pyrrhus of Epirus

D) Hannibal Barca

Answer · why

A) Alexander the Great

The lessons took place at the private school of Mieza, in the gardens of the Nymphs near Pella, when the boy was thirteen.

Q 03/05

What was the name of the school Aristotle founded in Athens?

A) The Garden

B) The Stoa

C) The Academy

D) The Lyceum

Answer · why

D) The Lyceum

As a metic he could not own property, so he rented the building, named for the sacred grove of Apollo Lykeios.

Q 04/05

Why did Aristotle's school become known as "Peripatetic"?

A) It admitted only travellers

B) It had a colonnade, or peripatos

C) Its students wandered from city to city

D) He taught while walking the city walls

Answer · why

B) It had a colonnade, or peripatos

The building also included a gymnasium; he taught and researched there for twelve years.

Q 05/05

In which city in Chalkidiki, northern Greece, was Aristotle born in 384 BC?

A) Olynthus

B) Stagira

C) Pella

D) Thessaloniki

Answer · why

B) Stagira

It lies about 55 km east of modern Thessaloniki.