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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Spinoza.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the only three things worthwhile in Plato's ethical solution?
(a) beauty, athleticism, education
(b) justice, truth, beauty
(c) travel, study, rhetoric
(d) philosophy, music, poetry

2. What happened after Spinoza dispensed with faith?
(a) the faithful dispensed with him
(b) new religions sprang up
(c) the faithful were devastated
(d) religion died

3. What does Bacon call for elimination in his philosophy?
(a) the model of the philosopher king
(b) several errors he calls idols
(c) public education
(d) a private banking system

4. What is Spinoza's second book?
(a) Ethics
(b) The Treatise on Religion and the State
(c) The Improvement of the Intellect
(d) The Political Treatise

5. What circumstance does Spinoza say keeps the racial existence of the Jews?
(a) 3,500 years of Jewish tradition
(b) Jewish schools of higher education
(c) having no land to call their own
(d) persecution by Christians

Short Answer Questions

1. What philosopher and statesman does Francis Bacon aspire to be like?

2. What does the King of Syracuse learn that causes him to cancel his invitation to Plato to organize Utopia?

3. What does Spinoza call the highest knowledge of universal unity?

4. What does Aristotle devise to integrate the particular with the universal?

5. To what end does Socrates develop his Socratic Method?

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