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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What drives the Jews out of their natural home?
(a) the slave rebellion in Rome
(b) the Holacaust
(c) Roman capture of Jerusalem in 70 A.D
(d) the conquest of the Crusaders

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

3. What does Bacon suggest should be observed similar to Machiavellian philosophy?
(a) what men do rather than what they should do
(b) who has the most power
(c) how to discipline the masses
(d) the futility of the aristocratic form of government

4. How far is Alexander able to spread Greek culture?
(a) into Egypt
(b) into Persia
(c) into Asia Minor
(d) all over the world

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do metaphysics and the nature of God fit into Aristotle's curriculum?

2. By the thirteenth century A. D., how does the Church unite the European continent?

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

4. What is the first of four books written by Spinoza?

5. At what age does Plato advocate taking children from their parents to avoid learning bad habits?

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