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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 is Aristotle's foundation of logic?
(a) the art and method of correct thinking
(b) the way to make a syllogysm
(c) the way to ask Socratic questions
(d) the art of listening

2. What does Voltaire's father tell him will come from an education in literature?
(a) make him useless to society
(b) make him indispensible to society
(c) make him a bookworm
(d) make him a great author

3. What motivates Voltaire to accept Prince Frederick's invitation and travel expenses to join him in his court in Potsdam?
(a) an opportunity to learn German
(b) his sorrow after the death of his mistress
(c) his curiosity about German philosophy
(d) a warrant for his arrest in Paris

4. What is Spinoza's second book?
(a) The Treatise on Religion and the State
(b) The Improvement of the Intellect
(c) Ethics
(d) The Political Treatise

5. What natural calamity do European religious leaders label as the punishment of God?
(a) a volcano in Italy
(b) a fire in Rome
(c) a flood in Germany
(d) an earthquake in Lisbon

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who are Francis Bacon's relative that cause it to be said that his political career began at his birth in 1561?

3. What are the only three things worthwhile in Plato's ethical solution?

4. What is said to change Plato's life?

5. What do the concepts of praise or blame indicate according to Aristotle?

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