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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) aristocrats from Spain and the Netherlands
(c) well-placed English aristocrats
(d) pretenders to the English throne

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

3. By the thirteenth century A. D., how does the Church unite the European continent?
(a) by persecution of heresy
(b) by millitancy and fear
(c) by common language and desires
(d) by common faith and supernatural sanctions

4. What does Aristotle devise to integrate the particular with the universal?
(a) metaphysical examination
(b) the Aristotlean Method
(c) sophistry
(d) the syllogism

5. Eventually what does Alexander's conquests in Asia open up to the Greeks?
(a) lavish lifestyles
(b) cults and superstitious faiths
(c) Eastern monotheism
(d) important trade routes

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aristotle teach at the Lyceum?

2. What is a special element of soul in the human being according to Aristotle?

3. What does Spinoza suggest the aim of Biblical language is meant to do?

4. How does Spinoza explain references to God's halting the natural function of nature on several occasions in the Bible?

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

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