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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What philosopher and statesman does Francis Bacon aspire to be like?
(a) Seneca
(b) Salon
(c) Cicero
(d) Copernicus

2. What biological notion does Aristotle reject?
(a) survival of the fittest
(b) evolution of species
(c) vegetarianism
(d) extinction of species

3. Who are the students of Socrates?
(a) misfits of society
(b) the sons of the Athenian elite
(c) the leaders of the athenian democracy
(d) a mixed group of young learned men

4. What new philosophy uses faith and reason to force acceptance of untried assumptions and conclusions?
(a) Activism
(b) Fundamentalism
(c) Martialism
(d) Scholasticism

5. Although science and philosophy exists in Greece before their times, who were the teachers who greatly advanced the fields?
(a) Playto and Prothagorus
(b) Socrates and Plato
(c) Aristotle and Onassis
(d) Aristotle and Socrates

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Democritus claim that Aristotle disagrees with?

2. Where is a meeting held to discuss the Republic?

3. What student of Aristotle becomes a major historical figure?

4. What does Plato say is a science and art one must live and prepare for?

5. Where does the Jewish migration along the Danube and Rhine rivers take the Jews?

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