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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Reducing everything through the Socratic Method, what do Socrates and Cephalus agree to discuss?
(a) the meaning of philosophy
(b) the meaning of happiness
(c) the meaning of justice
(d) the meaning of war

2. To what does Spinoza change his Jewish given name?
(a) the German name, Hans
(b) the Russian name, Igor
(c) the English name, John
(d) the gentile name, Benedict

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

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

5. What is Aristotle's foundation of logic?
(a) the way to make a syllogysm
(b) the art and method of correct thinking
(c) the way to ask Socratic questions
(d) the art of listening

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Spinoza's Ethic do with Buddhism and Christianity, the philosophy of Machiavelli and Nietzsche, and the democracy of the Greeks?

2. What becomes the unifying element in Plato's description of justice?

3. What does Plato say early education should do?

4. Why does Spinoza say an allegorical interpretation of the Bible allows it to be?

5. To what end does Socrates develop his Socratic Method?

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