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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 Spinoza's Ethic do with Buddhism and Christianity, the philosophy of Machiavelli and Nietzsche, and the democracy of the Greeks?
(a) takes only bits and pieces from each
(b) integrates and reconciles all three ethical systems
(c) keeps them separate for different ethnic groups
(d) throws them out in favor of his own ideas

2. What are two theories from the Orient that gain acceptance in Greece?
(a) Stoicism and Epicureanism
(b) Polytheism and atheism
(c) Buddhism and Hinduism
(d) Confucianism and communism

3. Why is Bacon often accused of being atheistic?
(a) because his philosophy is secular and rationalistic
(b) because he seldom attends church
(c) because he denies the authority of the Church
(d) because he talks about natrue rather than God

4. To what does Spinoza change his Jewish given name?
(a) the gentile name, Benedict
(b) the Russian name, Igor
(c) the English name, John
(d) the German name, Hans

5. When does Plato return to Athens and begin to write?
(a) at the age of twenty-eight when Socrates dies
(b) at the age of fifty in 397 B. C.
(c) at the age of thirty while touring the middle east
(d) at the age of forty in 387 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. What philosophy does Bacon accept in his Essays?

2. What are the only three things worthwhile in Plato's ethical solution?

3. What does Voltaire do when he is sentenced to the Bastille a second time?

4. What comprises Plato's writing style?

5. Reducing everything through the Socratic Method, what do Socrates and Cephalus agree to discuss?

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