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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. At what age does Plato advocate taking children from their parents to avoid learning bad habits?
(a) age ten
(b) age three
(c) at adolescence
(d) at birth

2. 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

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

4. What is one result of Aristotle's prolific output of writing?
(a) an error free reference library
(b) a definitive answer to all philosophical questions
(c) a large amount of errors
(d) a need to build larger libraries

5. What does Voltaire's father tell him will come from an education in literature?
(a) make him indispensible to society
(b) make him useless to society
(c) make him a bookworm
(d) make him a great author

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is a meeting held to discuss the Republic?

2. What does Spinoza call the highest knowledge of universal unity?

3. Reducing everything through the Socratic Method, what do Socrates and Cephalus agree to discuss?

4. To answer Rousseau, what satirical story does Voltaire write about the best of all possible worlds?

5. What does Aristotle define as the entire vital principle of any being?

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 is Bacon's philosophy comparable to Plato's?

3. How does Plato differentiate between emotion and knowledge?

4. Explain why Spinoza gives up everything for philosophy.

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

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

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

8. What is a common criticism of Voltaire?

9. Describe the idols Bacon identifies and wants to eliminate.

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

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