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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Voltaire and the French Enlightenment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What drives the Jews out of their natural home?
(a) the Holacaust
(b) Roman capture of Jerusalem in 70 A.D
(c) the slave rebellion in Rome
(d) the conquest of the Crusaders

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

3. When does Plato return to Athens and begin to write?
(a) at the age of thirty while touring the middle east
(b) at the age of forty in 387 B.C.
(c) at the age of fifty in 397 B. C.
(d) at the age of twenty-eight when Socrates dies

4. How old is Francis Bacon when he resolves to turn philosophy from scholastic arguments to illumination and increase of human good?
(a) age fifty
(b) age sixteen
(c) age thirty
(d) age twenty-four

5. What are two theories from the Orient that gain acceptance in Greece?
(a) Polytheism and atheism
(b) Confucianism and communism
(c) Buddhism and Hinduism
(d) Stoicism and Epicureanism

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Plato's early life best described?

2. What does Baruch Spinoza begin to feel about his traditional Jewish education?

3. Who eventually dominates Greek philosophy and government?

4. Where is a meeting held to discuss the Republic?

5. What method do all the fields of study--science, discipline, art and music--use in common?

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