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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 is lacking in Aristotle's philosophy that is so evident in Plato's?
(a) a reforming zeal
(b) a good use of rhetoric
(c) a means of testing
(d) a clear objective

2. What is a special element of soul in the human being according to Aristotle?
(a) a power to dream
(b) a power of reason and thought
(c) a power of understanding metaphysics
(d) a power to dominate

3. Why does Spinoza say an allegorical interpretation of the Bible allows it to be?
(a) not difficult to understand
(b) not contrary to reason
(c) not a great mystery
(d) not a book of rules and regulations

4. How does Voltaire think what is wrong with most recorded history could be corrected?
(a) history should be forgotten
(b) only philosophers should write history
(c) history should only be written by scientists
(d) only scholars should write history

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the King of Syracuse learn that causes him to cancel his invitation to Plato to organize Utopia?

2. How does Spinoza explain references to God's halting the natural function of nature on several occasions in the Bible?

3. What comprises Plato's writing style?

4. What does Plato say early education should do?

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

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