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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 event makes the rival schools of Stoicism and Epicureanism split philosophically?
(a) the resurgance of Judaism
(b) the Romans' arrival in 46 B.C.
(c) the arrival of missionaries from the East
(d) the disintegration of public infrastructures

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

3. What is the foundation of Plato's Republic?
(a) creating contributing classes of people
(b) destroying individuality for an idealized state
(c) allowing individuality to flourish
(d) putting the state in a subservient position

4. Although science and philosophy exists in Greece before their times, who were the teachers who greatly advanced the fields?
(a) Socrates and Plato
(b) Playto and Prothagorus
(c) Aristotle and Onassis
(d) Aristotle and Socrates

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what end does Socrates develop his Socratic Method?

2. When does Plato return to Athens and begin to write?

3. How old is Francis Bacon when he resolves to turn philosophy from scholastic arguments to illumination and increase of human good?

4. What does Aristotle establish in Athens?

5. What circumstance does Spinoza say keeps the racial existence of the Jews?

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