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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way is Bacon's reconstruction thought superior to that of Aristotle?
(a) more practical than theoretical
(b) less idealistic and more severe
(c) less detailed, evolving slowly
(d) more flexible for the people

2. Reducing everything through the Socratic Method, what do Socrates and Cephalus agree to discuss?
(a) the meaning of war
(b) the meaning of philosophy
(c) the meaning of happiness
(d) the meaning of justice

3. What does Spinoza call the highest knowledge of universal unity?
(a) the intellectual equivalent of the love of God
(b) understanding the influence of the stars
(c) the educated answers to philosophical questions
(d) the lessons from philosophers of the past

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

5. Significantly, who gets ignored in Bacon's utopia?
(a) Plato and Socrates
(b) Copernicus and other scientists
(c) proponents of the New Atlantis
(d) Hobbes, Locke, and Bentham

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a special element of soul in the human being according to Aristotle?

2. To what does Spinoza change his Jewish given name?

3. What event makes the rival schools of Stoicism and Epicureanism split philosophically?

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

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

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