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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What philosophy does Bacon accept in his Essays?
(a) a tendency toward Romanticism
(b) a Platonic ideal
(c) a Stoic position
(d) an Epicurean ethic

4. What is a special element of soul in the human being according to Aristotle?
(a) a power to dominate
(b) a power of understanding metaphysics
(c) a power to dream
(d) a power of reason and thought

5. Who are the students of Socrates?
(a) the sons of the Athenian elite
(b) misfits of society
(c) the leaders of the athenian democracy
(d) a mixed group of young learned men

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first of four books written by Spinoza?

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

3. What does Spinoza say the language of the Bible is?

4. What student of Aristotle becomes a major historical figure?

5. When does Plato return to Athens and begin to write?

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