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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. Why does Spinoza say an allegorical interpretation of the Bible allows it to be?
(a) not a book of rules and regulations
(b) not contrary to reason
(c) not difficult to understand
(d) not a great mystery

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

4. What, according to Spinoza, is scripture intended to promote?
(a) devotion rather than to reason
(b) literature rather than science
(c) reason over superstition
(d) clarity rather than confusion

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Aristotle devise to integrate the particular with the universal?

3. What does Aristotle say is the need of Motion?

4. At what age does Plato advocate taking children from their parents to avoid learning bad habits?

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

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