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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bacon call for elimination in his philosophy?
(a) the model of the philosopher king
(b) public education
(c) a private banking system
(d) several errors he calls idols

2. What are the only three things worthwhile in Plato's ethical solution?
(a) philosophy, music, poetry
(b) travel, study, rhetoric
(c) justice, truth, beauty
(d) beauty, athleticism, education

3. What drives the Jews out of their natural home?
(a) the conquest of the Crusaders
(b) Roman capture of Jerusalem in 70 A.D
(c) the slave rebellion in Rome
(d) the Holacaust

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

5. How is Plato's early life best described?
(a) a life of poverty and destitution
(b) an idle life and a failure as a soldier
(c) a comfortable athletic youth and a successful soldier
(d) a playboy and a religious fanatic

6. What, according to Spinoza, is scripture intended to promote?
(a) devotion rather than to reason
(b) literature rather than science
(c) clarity rather than confusion
(d) reason over superstition

7. What does Spinoza say the language of the Bible is?
(a) magnatudinal
(b) metaphorical
(c) mystical
(d) metaphysical

8. What does Voltaire's Essay on Morals become?
(a) a book banned by every nations
(b) the basis of modern historical science
(c) a template for how to do research
(d) the last of his great works

9. Who are the students of Socrates?
(a) a mixed group of young learned men
(b) the sons of the Athenian elite
(c) misfits of society
(d) the leaders of the athenian democracy

10. How far is Alexander able to spread Greek culture?
(a) into Persia
(b) into Asia Minor
(c) all over the world
(d) into Egypt

11. 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

12. By the thirteenth century A. D., how does the Church unite the European continent?
(a) by common faith and supernatural sanctions
(b) by millitancy and fear
(c) by persecution of heresy
(d) by common language and desires

13. What does Voltaire include in his histories?
(a) society, not just wars
(b) customs and not laws
(c) people and not dates
(d) art and not science

14. What does Plato say is a science and art one must live and prepare for?
(a) military leadership
(b) teaching the young
(c) statesmanship
(d) oratory

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the King of Syracuse learn that causes him to cancel his invitation to Plato to organize Utopia?

2. What is the foundation of Plato's Republic?

3. In what way is Bacon's reconstruction thought superior to that of Aristotle?

4. Who suggests that men are at fault because they chose to live in houses in cities?

5. Although science and philosophy exists in Greece before their times, who were the teachers who greatly advanced the fields?

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