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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Spinoza do to support himself?
(a) grinds optical lenses
(b) writes for a newspaper
(c) tutors students
(d) gives violin lessons

2. What is said to change Plato's life?
(a) his time spent in Egypt
(b) his meeting with Socrates
(c) his friendship with Philip of Macedon
(d) his defection from the army

3. Although science and philosophy exists in Greece before their times, who were the teachers who greatly advanced the fields?
(a) Aristotle and Onassis
(b) Aristotle and Socrates
(c) Playto and Prothagorus
(d) Socrates and Plato

4. Where do metaphysics and the nature of God fit into Aristotle's curriculum?
(a) his rhetoric
(b) his theology
(c) his biology
(d) his mathematics

5. What does Socrates ask Cephalus to define?
(a) the meaning of the word moral
(b) the greatest blessing he receives from wealth
(c) the blessing he receives from education
(d) the best form of government

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

7. At first, what medium does Voltaire use to give humorous expression to his ideas?
(a) essays
(b) anonymous letters
(c) short novels
(d) short plays

8. To what end does Socrates develop his Socratic Method?
(a) to impress the multitudes
(b) to open a private university
(c) to test the assumptions of his pupils
(d) to perfom biological experiments

9. In what work does Voltaire discuss the morals and spirit of the nations from Charlemagne to Louis XIII?
(a) The Essay on Morals
(b) The History of Morals
(c) The Romances
(d) The Short Novels

10. What does Aristotle define as the entire vital principle of any being?
(a) matter
(b) motion
(c) energy
(d) soul

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

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

13. How does Voltaire think what is wrong with most recorded history could be corrected?
(a) only philosophers should write history
(b) history should be forgotten
(c) history should only be written by scientists
(d) only scholars should write history

14. Who in Voltaire's life is the young wife of a French Marquis who is away with his regiment?
(a) his secretary
(b) his neice
(c) his mistress
(d) his muse

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aristotle teach at the Lyceum?

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

3. What circumstance does Spinoza say keeps the racial existence of the Jews?

4. Who eventually dominates Greek philosophy and government?

5. What drives the Jews out of their natural home?

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