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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are Francis Bacon's relative that cause it to be said that his political career began at his birth in 1561?
(a) aristocrats from Spain and the Netherlands
(b) leaders of the Church of England
(c) pretenders to the English throne
(d) well-placed English aristocrats

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

3. What comprises Plato's writing style?
(a) drama, science, and sophistry
(b) philosophy and poetry, science and art
(c) mathematics, rhetoric, and music
(d) philosophy, rhetoric, and mathematics

4. What, according to Spinoza, is scripture intended to promote?
(a) literature rather than science
(b) reason over superstition
(c) devotion rather than to reason
(d) clarity rather than confusion

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Roman empire eventually become?

2. How old is Francis Bacon when he resolves to turn philosophy from scholastic arguments to illumination and increase of human good?

3. To what does Spinoza change his Jewish given name?

4. What are the only three things worthwhile in Plato's ethical solution?

5. Where does the Jewish migration along the Danube and Rhine rivers take the Jews?

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