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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the second and third volumes of Spencer's work in 1872?
(a) The Evolution of Life
(b) The Evolution of Thought
(c) The Evolution of Science
(d) The Evolution of Species

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

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

4. Why does Spinoza say an allegorical interpretation of the Bible allows it to be?
(a) not difficult to understand
(b) not a great mystery
(c) not contrary to reason
(d) not a book of rules and regulations

5. How does Spinoza explain references to God's halting the natural function of nature on several occasions in the Bible?
(a) the meaning is not clear in the scripture
(b) God and the processes of nature are one
(c) things like that spring from traditions
(d) those are allegories of God's power

Short Answer Questions

1. At first, what medium does Voltaire use to give humorous expression to his ideas?

2. What event makes the rival schools of Stoicism and Epicureanism split philosophically?

3. What does Schopenhauer see as the cause of strife and misery?

4. Who in Voltaire's life is the young wife of a French Marquis who is away with his regiment?

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

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