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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 does Bacon call for elimination in his philosophy?
(a) the model of the philosopher king
(b) a private banking system
(c) several errors he calls idols
(d) public education

2. In what work does Voltaire discuss the morals and spirit of the nations from Charlemagne to Louis XIII?
(a) The Romances
(b) The History of Morals
(c) The Essay on Morals
(d) The Short Novels

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

4. What is Voltaire's literary output?
(a) three plays, four novels, and 100 essays
(b) fifty-four volumes of work
(c) hundreds of manuscripts
(d) ninety-nine volumes

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Voltaire's letter criticizing France formulate in the French people?

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

3. What does Spinoza suggest the aim of Biblical language is meant to do?

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

5. What, according to Spinoza, is scripture intended to promote?

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