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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aristotle say is the need of Motion?
(a) a source
(b) matter
(c) a place to happen
(d) a reason

2. What philosophy does Bacon accept in his Essays?
(a) a tendency toward Romanticism
(b) a Stoic position
(c) an Epicurean ethic
(d) a Platonic ideal

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

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

5. What is Spinoza's second book?
(a) The Treatise on Religion and the State
(b) The Political Treatise
(c) The Improvement of the Intellect
(d) Ethics

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Spinoza find himself after asking questions about Jewish and Christian beliefs?

2. Reducing everything through the Socratic Method, what do Socrates and Cephalus agree to discuss?

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

4. When does Plato return to Athens and begin to write?

5. Where do metaphysics and the nature of God fit into Aristotle's curriculum?

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