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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. Eventually what does Alexander's conquests in Asia open up to the Greeks?
(a) cults and superstitious faiths
(b) important trade routes
(c) Eastern monotheism
(d) lavish lifestyles

2. To answer Rousseau, what satirical story does Voltaire write about the best of all possible worlds?
(a) The Misanthrope
(b) Utopia
(c) Atlantis
(d) Candide

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

4. What biological notion does Aristotle reject?
(a) evolution of species
(b) vegetarianism
(c) extinction of species
(d) survival of the fittest

5. Significantly, who gets ignored in Bacon's utopia?
(a) Copernicus and other scientists
(b) Plato and Socrates
(c) Hobbes, Locke, and Bentham
(d) proponents of the New Atlantis

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aristotle teach at the Lyceum?

2. What philosophy does Bacon accept in his Essays?

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

4. How does Spinoza explain references to God's halting the natural function of nature on several occasions in the Bible?

5. What does Spinoza do to support himself?

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