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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Voltaire and the French Enlightenment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aristotle devise to integrate the particular with the universal?
(a) the syllogism
(b) the Aristotlean Method
(c) metaphysical examination
(d) sophistry

2. What is said to change Plato's life?
(a) his time spent in Egypt
(b) his meeting with Socrates
(c) his friendship with Philip of Macedon
(d) his defection from the army

3. Where is a meeting held to discuss the Republic?
(a) at the Acropolis
(b) in the Parthenon
(c) at the Lyceum
(d) at the house of a wealthy aristocrat, Cephalus

4. At his birth in 384 B.C., into what kind of family is Aristotle born?
(a) a family of travelers
(b) a family of philosophers
(c) a military family
(d) a medical family

5. What does Spinoza say a literal interpretation of the Bible does?
(a) opens the Bible to errors
(b) makes it easy to understand
(c) gives no scientific evidence
(d) gives it broader meaning

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Democritus claim that Aristotle disagrees with?

2. To answer Rousseau, what satirical story does Voltaire write about the best of all possible worlds?

3. What does Aristotle teach at the Lyceum?

4. To what does Spinoza change his Jewish given name?

5. What are two theories from the Orient that gain acceptance in Greece?

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