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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. Where is Francois Arouet when he starts using the pen name, Voltaire?
(a) studying at Oxford
(b) sailing to the Americas
(c) recuperatiing from cholera
(d) imprisoned in the Bastille

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

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

4. What does Democritus claim that Aristotle disagrees with?
(a) there is no such thing as soul
(b) the soul is material
(c) the soul is temporary
(d) the soul is imaginary

5. Who are Francis Bacon's relative that cause it to be said that his political career began at his birth in 1561?
(a) pretenders to the English throne
(b) well-placed English aristocrats
(c) aristocrats from Spain and the Netherlands
(d) leaders of the Church of England

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Voltaire include in his histories?

2. What is Spinoza's second book?

3. What does Aristotle establish in Athens?

4. What does Aristotle define as the entire vital principle of any being?

5. What does Aristotle teach at the Lyceum?

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