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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Herbert Spencer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Plato say early education should do?
(a) teach logistics
(b) form good habits
(c) only amuse
(d) indoctrinate

2. What is Kant's critical analysis of the moral basis of religion?
(a) The Critique of Practical Reason
(b) The Critique of Science
(c) The Critique of Theology
(d) The Critique of Scriptures

3. 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 contrary to reason
(d) not difficult to understand

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

5. What does Aristotle teach at the Lyceum?
(a) biology and natural sciences
(b) physical and mental training
(c) the socratic Method
(d) athletics and mathematics

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what does Spencer say the soul of men living humble and precarious lives relies?

3. Who is the dominant philosophical thinker of the 19th Century?

4. Reducing everything through the Socratic Method, what do Socrates and Cephalus agree to discuss?

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

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