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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Vico suggested that the history of man passes through how many different stages?
(a) Five.
(b) Six.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

2. What does not offer proof for those things that it proposes?
(a) Dreamers.
(b) Pagans.
(c) Liberal.
(d) Idealism.

3. One of the aspects of most religions was a faith in some sort of afterlife. How did the Egyptians believe they had the hope of a better afterlife?
(a) If they treated others well.
(b) If they put up with slavery during their lives.
(c) If they were wealthy.
(d) If they built a tomb for themselves.

4. The coalition can gain even more ground by doing what?
(a) Becoming more organized.
(b) Starting more unions.
(c) Entering the political realm as a political party.
(d) Gaining more members.

5. How did philosophy start?
(a) As a criticism of supernatural or religious beliefs.
(b) As a study of the birth of man.
(c) Out of interest in making discoveries about our world.
(d) Out of fear of the unknown.

6. When does alienation occur?
(a) An exploited laborer earns a wage, but the object he makes belongs to someone else, and the worker becomes a machine.
(b) When one is left alone in a strange land.
(c) When one becomes isolated.
(d) The making of a company into a machine.

7. Giambattista Vico produced some _____________________ during this time, although he is not as well-known.
(a) Forgotten ideas.
(b) Important ideas.
(c) Useless ideas.
(d) Interesting ideas.

8. To what do Vico's stages correspond?
(a) The six stages of human life.
(b) The three stages of human life.
(c) The four stages of human life.
(d) The five stages of human life.

9. Why would Hegel believe that a worker should not worry about the material?
(a) The worker does not have the power to change anything.
(b) Only the spiritual matters.
(c) Worrying does not solve problems.
(d) Only the owner should worry.

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

11. One Marxist theorist argued that by working for a capitalist and producing a commodity, the worker is increasing what?
(a) His own education.
(b) His own understanding of the business world.
(c) His own usefulness.
(d) His own alienation.

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

13. The law of supply and demand often determines what?
(a) The amount of supplies needed.
(b) The number of laborers needed.
(c) The amount of work required.
(d) The price of a product.

14. Who were the individuals who tried to find logical explanations for natural events?
(a) The conservatives.
(b) The non-believers.
(c) The thinkers.
(d) The intelligent.

15. As the worker is not paid enough to meet his basic needs, he is forced to do what?
(a) Go on strike.
(b) Quit.
(c) Change jobs.
(d) Continue working at the low wage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Greece produced three of the most well-known and important philosophers. Who were these philosophers?

2. What did Hegel fail to see that still existed in society?

3. The term from number 116 comes from Greek where it means what?

4. The capitalist figures in the price of production, hidden costs, and his own profit when deciding the value of a product. What keeps the capitalist's profits growing?

5. Many, such as Socrates, were ___________________ for their views.

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