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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What method do all the fields of study--science, discipline, art and music--use in common?
(a) repetition of basics
(b) rote memorization
(c) the art of logic
(d) questions and answers

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

4. To what end does Socrates develop his Socratic Method?
(a) to impress the multitudes
(b) to test the assumptions of his pupils
(c) to perfom biological experiments
(d) to open a private university

5. What does the Roman empire eventually become?
(a) the Roman Federation
(b) the world's trade union
(c) the European Union
(d) the Roman Papacy

Short Answer Questions

1. What circumstance does Spinoza say keeps the racial existence of the Jews?

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

3. What does Spinoza call the highest knowledge of universal unity?

4. In what way is Bacon's reconstruction thought superior to that of Aristotle?

5. What is said to change Plato's life?

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