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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 drives the Jews out of their natural home?
(a) the Holacaust
(b) Roman capture of Jerusalem in 70 A.D
(c) the slave rebellion in Rome
(d) the conquest of the Crusaders

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

3. What does Aristotle define as the entire vital principle of any being?
(a) matter
(b) motion
(c) energy
(d) soul

4. When is Plato born?
(a) in the fourth century B.C.
(b) Ca 400 B. C.
(c) in the second century B. C.
(d) in the first century B. C.

5. What new philosophy uses faith and reason to force acceptance of untried assumptions and conclusions?
(a) Activism
(b) Martialism
(c) Scholasticism
(d) Fundamentalism

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aristotle teach at the Lyceum?

2. What question does Plato raise to lead into a discussion of Utopia?

3. How does Spinoza find himself after asking questions about Jewish and Christian beliefs?

4. To answer Rousseau, what satirical story does Voltaire write about the best of all possible worlds?

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

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