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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who are the students of Socrates?
(a) the leaders of the athenian democracy
(b) misfits of society
(c) the sons of the Athenian elite
(d) a mixed group of young learned men

3. 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

4. What is the first of four books written by Spinoza?
(a) The History of War
(b) The Philosophy of the Ages
(c) The Fall of the Roman Empire
(d) The Treatise on Religion and the State

5. What becomes the unifying element in Plato's description of justice?
(a) the good of the children
(b) the sharing of the wealth
(c) the welfare of the group
(d) the quality of the laws

Short Answer Questions

1. Like Aristotle, what does Bacon see needs to be removed to avoid revolution?

2. What is Spinoza's second book?

3. What does Spinoza's Ethic do with Buddhism and Christianity, the philosophy of Machiavelli and Nietzsche, and the democracy of the Greeks?

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

5. What do the concepts of praise or blame indicate according to Aristotle?

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