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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bacon call for elimination in his philosophy?
(a) the model of the philosopher king
(b) a private banking system
(c) public education
(d) several errors he calls idols

2. What does the King of Syracuse learn that causes him to cancel his invitation to Plato to organize Utopia?
(a) that Plato is unpopular in Athens
(b) that he must leave his throne
(c) that he will have to work for a living
(d) that he must share his wealth

3. What is a special element of soul in the human being according to Aristotle?
(a) a power to dream
(b) a power of reason and thought
(c) a power of understanding metaphysics
(d) a power to dominate

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What becomes the unifying element in Plato's description of justice?

2. How is Plato's early life best described?

3. What is Spinoza's second book?

4. What does the Roman empire eventually become?

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

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