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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. What does Baruch Spinoza begin to feel about his traditional Jewish education?
(a) confused by different interpretations of the Torah
(b) tired with how long it takes
(c) fulfilled educationally
(d) unsatisfied with answers he gets in the synagogue

2. Eventually what does Alexander's conquests in Asia open up to the Greeks?
(a) lavish lifestyles
(b) cults and superstitious faiths
(c) important trade routes
(d) Eastern monotheism

3. What natural calamity do European religious leaders label as the punishment of God?
(a) a volcano in Italy
(b) a fire in Rome
(c) a flood in Germany
(d) an earthquake in Lisbon

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

5. What do Voltaire's letter criticizing France formulate in the French people?
(a) a refusal to perform his plays
(b) the strongest of French nationalism
(c) a distaste for Voltaire's writing
(d) the theoretical groundwork for Revolution

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Plato raise to lead into a discussion of Utopia?

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

3. What does Voltaire's father tell him will come from an education in literature?

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

5. What is the first of four books written by Spinoza?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Bacon's reconstruction exceed the work of Aristotle?

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

4. What is a common criticism of Voltaire?

5. Explain why Spinoza gives up everything for philosophy.

6. what methodology marks a difference in the thought processes of Plato and Aristotle?

7. How can Voltaire's life be compared to that of socrates?

8. Describe the mathematical form of Spinoza's approach to his philosophy.

9. Describe Spinoza's synonymous dichotomies.

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

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