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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Plato say early education should do?
(a) teach logistics
(b) form good habits
(c) indoctrinate
(d) only amuse

2. What drives the Jews out of their natural home?
(a) the slave rebellion in Rome
(b) the Holacaust
(c) Roman capture of Jerusalem in 70 A.D
(d) the conquest of the Crusaders

3. Where do metaphysics and the nature of God fit into Aristotle's curriculum?
(a) his theology
(b) his mathematics
(c) his biology
(d) his rhetoric

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

5. What are two theories from the Orient that gain acceptance in Greece?
(a) Buddhism and Hinduism
(b) Polytheism and atheism
(c) Stoicism and Epicureanism
(d) Confucianism and communism

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Spinoza say a literal interpretation of the Bible does?

3. What new philosophy uses faith and reason to force acceptance of untried assumptions and conclusions?

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

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

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