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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Plato raise to lead into a discussion of Utopia?
(a) if an oligarchy is an appropriate government
(b) if democracy in Athens is working
(c) if it is better to be good or to be strong
(d) if everyone is satisfied

2. What circumstance does Spinoza say keeps the racial existence of the Jews?
(a) 3,500 years of Jewish tradition
(b) having no land to call their own
(c) Jewish schools of higher education
(d) persecution by Christians

3. What does Democritus claim that Aristotle disagrees with?
(a) the soul is imaginary
(b) the soul is material
(c) there is no such thing as soul
(d) the soul is temporary

4. How does Spinoza find himself after asking questions about Jewish and Christian beliefs?
(a) promoted to head philosopher
(b) honored as a great thinker
(c) excommunicated from the synagogue
(d) left without a source of income

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What drives the Jews out of their natural home?

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

3. How old is Francis Bacon when he resolves to turn philosophy from scholastic arguments to illumination and increase of human good?

4. What, according to Spinoza, is scripture intended to promote?

5. What does Spinoza say the language of the Bible is?

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