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

2. What does Spinoza say a literal interpretation of the Bible does?
(a) makes it easy to understand
(b) gives no scientific evidence
(c) gives it broader meaning
(d) opens the Bible to errors

3. At what age does Plato advocate taking children from their parents to avoid learning bad habits?
(a) age ten
(b) at birth
(c) age three
(d) at adolescence

4. What does Voltaire include in his histories?
(a) customs and not laws
(b) people and not dates
(c) society, not just wars
(d) art and not science

5. Where do metaphysics and the nature of God fit into Aristotle's curriculum?
(a) his mathematics
(b) his theology
(c) his biology
(d) his rhetoric

Short Answer Questions

1. At first, what medium does Voltaire use to give humorous expression to his ideas?

2. What does Bacon suggest should be observed similar to Machiavellian philosophy?

3. What does Spinoza say the language of the Bible is?

4. What is Aristotle's foundation of logic?

5. What does Socrates ask Cephalus to define?

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