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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Spinoza.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Like Aristotle, what does Bacon see needs to be removed to avoid revolution?
(a) the right to bear arms
(b) the ownership of private property
(c) issues that cause poverty and discontent
(d) the right to vote

2. How far is Alexander able to spread Greek culture?
(a) into Egypt
(b) into Persia
(c) all over the world
(d) into Asia Minor

3. Significantly, who gets ignored in Bacon's utopia?
(a) Copernicus and other scientists
(b) Plato and Socrates
(c) Hobbes, Locke, and Bentham
(d) proponents of the New Atlantis

4. How does Spinoza explain references to God's halting the natural function of nature on several occasions in the Bible?
(a) things like that spring from traditions
(b) the meaning is not clear in the scripture
(c) those are allegories of God's power
(d) God and the processes of nature are one

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aristotle define as the entire vital principle of any being?

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

3. What is Aristotle's foundation of logic?

4. What does Plato say is a science and art one must live and prepare for?

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

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