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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What biological notion does Aristotle reject?
(a) extinction of species
(b) survival of the fittest
(c) vegetarianism
(d) evolution of species

3. What does Spinoza do to support himself?
(a) tutors students
(b) writes for a newspaper
(c) grinds optical lenses
(d) gives violin lessons

4. What does Spinoza say a literal interpretation of the Bible does?
(a) opens the Bible to errors
(b) gives it broader meaning
(c) makes it easy to understand
(d) gives no scientific evidence

5. What does Spinoza call the highest knowledge of universal unity?
(a) the lessons from philosophers of the past
(b) the educated answers to philosophical questions
(c) understanding the influence of the stars
(d) the intellectual equivalent of the love of God

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Plato say early education should do?

2. What is said to change Plato's life?

3. At his birth in 384 B.C., into what kind of family is Aristotle born?

4. What are the only three things worthwhile in Plato's ethical solution?

5. Eventually what does Alexander's conquests in Asia open up to the Greeks?

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