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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 clear objective
(c) a good use of rhetoric
(d) a means of testing

2. How is Plato's early life best described?
(a) a comfortable athletic youth and a successful soldier
(b) a life of poverty and destitution
(c) a playboy and a religious fanatic
(d) an idle life and a failure as a soldier

3. What are two theories from the Orient that gain acceptance in Greece?
(a) Stoicism and Epicureanism
(b) Polytheism and atheism
(c) Confucianism and communism
(d) Buddhism and Hinduism

4. When does Plato return to Athens and begin to write?
(a) at the age of forty in 387 B.C.
(b) at the age of thirty while touring the middle east
(c) at the age of twenty-eight when Socrates dies
(d) at the age of fifty in 397 B. C.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is a meeting held to discuss the Republic?

2. What does Spinoza do to support himself?

3. What does Voltaire's Essay on Morals become?

4. What does not affect France like it does Germany and England?

5. Why is Bacon often accused of being atheistic?

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