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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the irony of Kant's quiet Prussian life relative to Voltaire's Parisian life?
(a) both of them lack credibility in their day
(b) both of them live in exile
(c) both of them become quite wealthy
(d) both of them get into trouble with their governments

3. How does Kant classify an action done in accord with one's inner sense of duty?
(a) as holy
(b) as good
(c) as isolated
(d) as habitual

4. How does the German Bismarck eliminate Europe's delusions, democracy, and ideals?
(a) recognizing that nations are not autonimous.
(b) recognizing that nations now aid one another
(c) recognizing that nations have different philosophies
(d) recognizing that nations do not share altruism

5. What does Nietzsche claim the English Darwinians, French positivists and German socialists reject ?
(a) Christian theology but retain its morality
(b) any kind of taught morality
(c) reliance on science for answers
(d) all who have other opinions

Short Answer Questions

1. What is needed by a strong man who seeks intensity and experience at the cost of tragic woe?

2. What does Nietzsche claim causes fulfillment of woman and narrowing of man?

3. With what famous composer does does Nietzsche study the piano?

4. What does Kant call knowledge that is independent of sense-experience and whose truth is certain before experience?

5. What does Kant insist must be absolute and derived only from the inner self by direct perception and intuition?

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