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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what age does Plato advocate taking children from their parents to avoid learning bad habits?
(a) age ten
(b) at adolescence
(c) age three
(d) at birth

2. Like Aristotle, what does Bacon see needs to be removed to avoid revolution?
(a) the right to bear arms
(b) issues that cause poverty and discontent
(c) the ownership of private property
(d) the right to vote

3. What does Spencer call a rationalizing myth for belief that defies conception?
(a) theology
(b) geneology
(c) toxicology
(d) cosmology

4. Instead of God and heaven, what does Spencer define as life?
(a) desperation and satisfaction
(b) regulation and manumission
(c) confusion and evolution
(d) equilibration and dissolution

5. What circumstance does Spinoza say keeps the racial existence of the Jews?
(a) having no land to call their own
(b) persecution by Christians
(c) 3,500 years of Jewish tradition
(d) Jewish schools of higher education

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Spinoza say an allegorical interpretation of the Bible allows it to be?

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

3. What does Democritus claim that Aristotle disagrees with?

4. What early 19th century philosopher is included in a group of pessimists, poets and composers considered the voices of the age?

5. What is one result of Aristotle's prolific output of writing?

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