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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Spinoza.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the only three things worthwhile in Plato's ethical solution?
(a) justice, truth, beauty
(b) travel, study, rhetoric
(c) philosophy, music, poetry
(d) beauty, athleticism, education

2. How does Spinoza find himself after asking questions about Jewish and Christian beliefs?
(a) honored as a great thinker
(b) excommunicated from the synagogue
(c) left without a source of income
(d) promoted to head philosopher

3. 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

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

5. Like Aristotle, what does Bacon see needs to be removed to avoid revolution?
(a) issues that cause poverty and discontent
(b) the right to bear arms
(c) the right to vote
(d) the ownership of private property

Short Answer Questions

1. What event makes the rival schools of Stoicism and Epicureanism split philosophically?

2. What does Aristotle teach at the Lyceum?

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

4. What philosophy does Bacon accept in his Essays?

5. In what way is Bacon's reconstruction thought superior to that of Aristotle?

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