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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. Although science and philosophy exists in Greece before their times, who were the teachers who greatly advanced the fields?
(a) Aristotle and Onassis
(b) Aristotle and Socrates
(c) Playto and Prothagorus
(d) Socrates and Plato

2. What does Bacon call for elimination in his philosophy?
(a) the model of the philosopher king
(b) a private banking system
(c) public education
(d) several errors he calls idols

3. What circumstance does Spinoza say keeps the racial existence of the Jews?
(a) persecution by Christians
(b) having no land to call their own
(c) Jewish schools of higher education
(d) 3,500 years of Jewish tradition

4. What does Aristotle say is the need of Motion?
(a) a source
(b) a reason
(c) matter
(d) a place to happen

5. What philosophy does Bacon accept in his Essays?
(a) a Stoic position
(b) an Epicurean ethic
(c) a tendency toward Romanticism
(d) a Platonic ideal

Short Answer Questions

1. Significantly, who gets ignored in Bacon's utopia?

2. At what age does Plato advocate taking children from their parents to avoid learning bad habits?

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

4. What is Voltaire's literary output?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is a common criticism of Voltaire?

6. Who are the students of Socrates?

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

8. Describe Voltaire's The Essay on Morals.

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

10. Explain why Spinoza gives up everything for philosophy.

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