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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Spinoza find himself after asking questions about Jewish and Christian beliefs?
(a) honored as a great thinker
(b) excommunicated from the synagogue
(c) promoted to head philosopher
(d) left without a source of income

2. When does Plato return to Athens and begin to write?
(a) at the age of thirty while touring the middle east
(b) at the age of fifty in 397 B. C.
(c) at the age of twenty-eight when Socrates dies
(d) at the age of forty in 387 B.C.

3. What does Democritus claim that Aristotle disagrees with?
(a) there is no such thing as soul
(b) the soul is material
(c) the soul is imaginary
(d) the soul is temporary

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

5. What student of Aristotle becomes a major historical figure?
(a) Alexander the Great
(b) Julius Caesar
(c) Philip of Macedon
(d) Ulysses

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Voltaire think what is wrong with most recorded history could be corrected?

2. What does Aristotle teach at the Lyceum?

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

4. Where does the Jewish migration along the Danube and Rhine rivers take the Jews?

5. To what does Spinoza change his Jewish given name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Voltaire's reaction to Rousseau's suggestion that men were responsible for the deaths in the Lisbon earthquake?

2. How does Voltaire research his writing?

3. Describe the origins of stoicism and Epicureanism in Greek philosophy.

4. Explain why Spinoza gives up everything for philosophy.

5. Explain the reasons for a break between Plato and Aristotle.

6. Describe Aristotle's idea of what a man's goal in life should be.

7. What happens because of Spinoza's questions about Judeo-Christian beliefs?

8. How does Spinoza's education come from questions he wants answers to?

9. Contrast Aristotle's Lyceum with Plato's Academy.

10. How does the scope of Bacon's philosophy miss his goal?

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