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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 life of poverty and destitution
(b) a playboy and a religious fanatic
(c) an idle life and a failure as a soldier
(d) a comfortable athletic youth and a successful soldier

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

3. What is lacking in Aristotle's philosophy that is so evident in Plato's?
(a) a means of testing
(b) a reforming zeal
(c) a clear objective
(d) a good use of rhetoric

4. Eventually what does Alexander's conquests in Asia open up to the Greeks?
(a) Eastern monotheism
(b) lavish lifestyles
(c) cults and superstitious faiths
(d) important trade routes

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Baruch Spinoza begin to feel about his traditional Jewish education?

2. Why does Spinoza say an allegorical interpretation of the Bible allows it to be?

3. What does Bacon call for elimination in his philosophy?

4. What is Spinoza's second book?

5. What are the only three things worthwhile in Plato's ethical solution?

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