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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 happened after Spinoza dispensed with faith?
(a) the faithful dispensed with him
(b) new religions sprang up
(c) religion died
(d) the faithful were devastated
2. What does Voltaire include in his histories?
(a) society, not just wars
(b) customs and not laws
(c) people and not dates
(d) art and not science
3. 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
4. Significantly, who gets ignored in Bacon's utopia?
(a) Plato and Socrates
(b) proponents of the New Atlantis
(c) Copernicus and other scientists
(d) Hobbes, Locke, and Bentham
5. What event makes the rival schools of Stoicism and Epicureanism split philosophically?
(a) the Romans' arrival in 46 B.C.
(b) the resurgance of Judaism
(c) the disintegration of public infrastructures
(d) the arrival of missionaries from the East
Short Answer Questions
1. At first, what medium does Voltaire use to give humorous expression to his ideas?
2. What does Spinoza suggest the aim of Biblical language is meant to do?
3. Where does the Jewish migration along the Danube and Rhine rivers take the Jews?
4. What does Socrates ask Cephalus to define?
5. Although science and philosophy exists in Greece before their times, who were the teachers who greatly advanced the fields?
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