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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4 (pg. 65-94).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Pythagoras argue?
(a) The earth is round.
(b) Formulas can be used in mathematics to discover new answers.
(c) The earth was not at the center of the universe.
(d) The earth is the center of the universe.

2. How did Marx live for the rest of his life?
(a) In the United States.
(b) In poverty.
(c) In hiding.
(d) In Paris.

3. What did Rius want to do regarding Marx?
(a) Understand him better.
(b) Help others understand him better.
(c) Encourage others to be interested in Marxism.
(d) Promote communism.

4. With this philosophy of seeing everything as mechanical, things are immutable or _____________________.
(a) Changing.
(b) Rarely changing.
(c) Usually changing.
(d) Unchanging.

5. What is Vico's first stage?
(a) Barbarism.
(b) Feudalism.
(c) Hunter gatherer.
(d) Farmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were these terms located?

2. Descartes used a _______________ logic to examine the world.

3. How did Spinoza think of God?

4. Who was Xenophanes?

5. Many thinkers were looking for answers about what?

(see the answer key)

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