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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 is Voltaire's literary output?
(a) hundreds of manuscripts
(b) ninety-nine volumes
(c) fifty-four volumes of work
(d) three plays, four novels, and 100 essays

2. In what way is Bacon's reconstruction thought superior to that of Aristotle?
(a) less idealistic and more severe
(b) less detailed, evolving slowly
(c) more practical than theoretical
(d) more flexible for the people

3. What does Bacon suggest should be observed similar to Machiavellian philosophy?
(a) what men do rather than what they should do
(b) the futility of the aristocratic form of government
(c) how to discipline the masses
(d) who has the most power

4. What biological notion does Aristotle reject?
(a) survival of the fittest
(b) vegetarianism
(c) evolution of species
(d) extinction of species

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Roman empire eventually become?

2. What does not affect France like it does Germany and England?

3. What does Aristotle teach at the Lyceum?

4. What does Voltaire do when he is sentenced to the Bastille a second time?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the philosophers before Socrates, Plato, and aristotle.

2. How does Plato state the cause of political problems in the world?

3. What is Voltaire's reaction to Voltaire's desire to be a professional writer?

4. How does Voltaire research his writing?

5. How does Plato see population as a political problem of war that can be controlled?

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

7. Explain Aristotle's definition of God.

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

9. Describe Spinoza's identification of three ethical systems.

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

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