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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How is Plato's early life best described?
(a) an idle life and a failure as a soldier
(b) a playboy and a religious fanatic
(c) a life of poverty and destitution
(d) a comfortable athletic youth and a successful soldier

3. How far is Alexander able to spread Greek culture?
(a) all over the world
(b) into Asia Minor
(c) into Egypt
(d) into Persia

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

5. When does Plato return to Athens and begin to write?
(a) at the age of forty in 387 B.C.
(b) at the age of twenty-eight when Socrates dies
(c) at the age of thirty while touring the middle east
(d) at the age of fifty in 397 B. C.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the foundation of Plato's Republic?

3. Who are the students of Socrates?

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

5. Like Aristotle, what does Bacon see needs to be removed to avoid revolution?

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