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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Voltaire and the French Enlightenment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the King of Syracuse learn that causes him to cancel his invitation to Plato to organize Utopia?
(a) that he must leave his throne
(b) that he must share his wealth
(c) that Plato is unpopular in Athens
(d) that he will have to work for a living

2. What does Spinoza say a literal interpretation of the Bible does?
(a) gives it broader meaning
(b) gives no scientific evidence
(c) makes it easy to understand
(d) opens the Bible to errors

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

4. What event makes the rival schools of Stoicism and Epicureanism split philosophically?
(a) the resurgance of Judaism
(b) the arrival of missionaries from the East
(c) the disintegration of public infrastructures
(d) the Romans' arrival in 46 B.C.

5. How does Spinoza find himself after asking questions about Jewish and Christian beliefs?
(a) honored as a great thinker
(b) left without a source of income
(c) excommunicated from the synagogue
(d) promoted to head philosopher

Short Answer Questions

1. What circumstance does Spinoza say keeps the racial existence of the Jews?

2. Who are the students of Socrates?

3. What does Spinoza say the language of the Bible is?

4. What do Voltaire's letter criticizing France formulate in the French people?

5. What is something Voltaire is noted for with his critics?

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