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

2. What do the concepts of praise or blame indicate according to Aristotle?
(a) a way of avoiding responsibility
(b) the need for athletic contests
(c) moral responsibility and free will
(d) disagreements in society

3. What does Socrates ask Cephalus to define?
(a) the meaning of the word moral
(b) the best form of government
(c) the blessing he receives from education
(d) the greatest blessing he receives from wealth

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

5. What does Aristotle say is the need of Motion?
(a) a place to happen
(b) matter
(c) a reason
(d) a source

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the foundation of Plato's Republic?

2. What does Spinoza call the highest knowledge of universal unity?

3. What drives the Jews out of their natural home?

4. Where does the Jewish migration along the Danube and Rhine rivers take the Jews?

5. In what work does Voltaire discuss the morals and spirit of the nations from Charlemagne to Louis XIII?

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