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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Plato raise to lead into a discussion of Utopia?
(a) if everyone is satisfied
(b) if an oligarchy is an appropriate government
(c) if democracy in Athens is working
(d) if it is better to be good or to be strong

2. What does Socrates ask Cephalus to define?
(a) the best form of government
(b) the greatest blessing he receives from wealth
(c) the blessing he receives from education
(d) the meaning of the word moral

3. How is Plato's early life best described?
(a) a life of poverty and destitution
(b) an idle life and a failure as a soldier
(c) a comfortable athletic youth and a successful soldier
(d) a playboy and a religious fanatic

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

5. What is Aristotle's foundation of logic?
(a) the art and method of correct thinking
(b) the art of listening
(c) the way to make a syllogysm
(d) the way to ask Socratic questions

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What method do all the fields of study--science, discipline, art and music--use in common?

4. What drives the Jews out of their natural home?

5. What does Spinoza suggest the aim of Biblical language is meant to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Bacon's philosophy comparable to Plato's?

2. How does Spinoza's education come from questions he wants answers to?

3. Describe the origins of stoicism and Epicureanism in Greek philosophy.

4. Why is Aristotle's philosophy often criticized as dry and uninteresting?

5. Contrast Aristotle's Lyceum with Plato's Academy.

6. What is Voltaire's reaction to Voltaire's desire to be a professional writer?

7. How does Bacon's reconstruction exceed the work of Aristotle?

8. Explain Aristotle's definition of God.

9. How does Plato differentiate between emotion and knowledge?

10. What happens because of Spinoza's questions about Judeo-Christian beliefs?

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