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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) Salon
(b) Seneca
(c) Cicero
(d) Copernicus

2. What does Socrates ask Cephalus to define?
(a) the meaning of the word moral
(b) the blessing he receives from education
(c) the greatest blessing he receives from wealth
(d) the best form of government

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

4. What are two theories from the Orient that gain acceptance in Greece?
(a) Stoicism and Epicureanism
(b) Confucianism and communism
(c) Buddhism and Hinduism
(d) Polytheism and atheism

5. What does Aristotle establish in Athens?
(a) a school of oratory
(b) a system of exchange
(c) a scientific museum
(d) a political party

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Roman empire eventually become?

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

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

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

5. At his birth in 384 B.C., into what kind of family is Aristotle born?

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