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

2. What is lacking in Aristotle's philosophy that is so evident in Plato's?
(a) a reforming zeal
(b) a means of testing
(c) a good use of rhetoric
(d) a clear objective

3. How does every society and government ruins itself?
(a) by enabling excess in principle
(b) by growing tired
(c) by letting down their guard
(d) by being too constrictive

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

5. How is Plato's early life best described?
(a) a comfortable athletic youth and a successful soldier
(b) a life of poverty and destitution
(c) a playboy and a religious fanatic
(d) an idle life and a failure as a soldier

Short Answer Questions

1. What are two theories from the Orient that gain acceptance in Greece?

2. What does Voltaire's Essay on Morals become?

3. What does Spinoza say a literal interpretation of the Bible does?

4. What is one result of Aristotle's prolific output of writing?

5. At first, what medium does Voltaire use to give humorous expression to his ideas?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe Spinoza's synonymous dichotomies.

5. Briefly describe Plato's ideal rulers.

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

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

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

9. Explain Aristotle's definition of God.

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

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