The Story of Philosophy Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Will Durant
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The Story of Philosophy Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Voltaire's letter criticizing France formulate in the French people?
(a) the strongest of French nationalism
(b) a refusal to perform his plays
(c) a distaste for Voltaire's writing
(d) the theoretical groundwork for Revolution

2. Who are Francis Bacon's relative that cause it to be said that his political career began at his birth in 1561?
(a) pretenders to the English throne
(b) aristocrats from Spain and the Netherlands
(c) well-placed English aristocrats
(d) leaders of the Church of England

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

4. By the thirteenth century A. D., how does the Church unite the European continent?
(a) by millitancy and fear
(b) by persecution of heresy
(c) by common faith and supernatural sanctions
(d) by common language and desires

5. How does Voltaire think what is wrong with most recorded history could be corrected?
(a) only philosophers should write history
(b) history should only be written by scientists
(c) only scholars should write history
(d) history should be forgotten

6. What is Voltaire's literary output?
(a) three plays, four novels, and 100 essays
(b) ninety-nine volumes
(c) hundreds of manuscripts
(d) fifty-four volumes of work

7. 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.

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

9. Eventually what does Alexander's conquests in Asia open up to the Greeks?
(a) important trade routes
(b) Eastern monotheism
(c) lavish lifestyles
(d) cults and superstitious faiths

10. What does Spinoza say the language of the Bible is?
(a) metaphysical
(b) metaphorical
(c) mystical
(d) magnatudinal

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

12. What becomes the unifying element in Plato's description of justice?
(a) the welfare of the group
(b) the good of the children
(c) the sharing of the wealth
(d) the quality of the laws

13. What is the foundation of Plato's Republic?
(a) destroying individuality for an idealized state
(b) allowing individuality to flourish
(c) creating contributing classes of people
(d) putting the state in a subservient position

14. What does not affect France like it does Germany and England?
(a) The Reformation
(b) The Crusades
(c) The Revolution
(d) The Renaissance

15. In what way is Bacon's reconstruction thought superior to that of Aristotle?
(a) less detailed, evolving slowly
(b) less idealistic and more severe
(c) more flexible for the people
(d) more practical than theoretical

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Aristotle's foundation of logic?

2. What does Aristotle say is the need of Motion?

3. Who are the students of Socrates?

4. Although science and philosophy exists in Greece before their times, who were the teachers who greatly advanced the fields?

5. What does Aristotle establish in Athens?

(see the answer keys)

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