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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what age does Plato advocate taking children from their parents to avoid learning bad habits?
(a) at birth
(b) age three
(c) age ten
(d) at adolescence

2. When is Plato born?
(a) Ca 400 B. C.
(b) in the second century B. C.
(c) in the first century B. C.
(d) in the fourth century B.C.

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

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

5. What is the first of four books written by Spinoza?
(a) The Fall of the Roman Empire
(b) The Treatise on Religion and the State
(c) The History of War
(d) The Philosophy of the Ages

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Bacon often accused of being atheistic?

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

4. Significantly, who gets ignored in Bacon's utopia?

5. What is a special element of soul in the human being according to Aristotle?

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