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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is a contemporary of Kant's who writes so as to confound, confuse and attract disciples at the same time?
(a) Hegel
(b) Russell
(c) Voltaire
(d) Rousseau

2. What event makes the rival schools of Stoicism and Epicureanism split philosophically?
(a) the Romans' arrival in 46 B.C.
(b) the disintegration of public infrastructures
(c) the arrival of missionaries from the East
(d) the resurgance of Judaism

3. Without what does Kant say sensations cannot become perceptions?
(a) space and time
(b) hot and cold
(c) time and energy
(d) action and reaction

4. What does the Roman empire eventually become?
(a) the Roman Federation
(b) the Roman Papacy
(c) the world's trade union
(d) the European Union

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Significantly, who gets ignored in Bacon's utopia?

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

4. What does Nietzsche do that gets him discharged from the military?

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

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