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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Durant say the beginning of Schopenhauer's book contains?
(a) two-hundred pages of second-hand idealism
(b) lackluster descriptions of Europe
(c) unreadable prose taken from Kant
(d) sound and fury signifying nothing

2. What early 19th century philosopher is included in a group of pessimists, poets and composers considered the voices of the age?
(a) Rene Rousseau
(b) Immanuel Kant
(c) Hegel
(d) Schopenhauer

3. What does Spinoza call the highest knowledge of universal unity?
(a) the educated answers to philosophical questions
(b) the intellectual equivalent of the love of God
(c) understanding the influence of the stars
(d) the lessons from philosophers of the past

4. What does Voltaire's father tell him will come from an education in literature?
(a) make him indispensible to society
(b) make him a great author
(c) make him a bookworm
(d) make him useless to society

5. Where does Voltaire write The Romances?
(a) in Cirey, France
(b) in Frankfurt, Germany
(c) in London, England
(d) in Bonn, Germany

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Aristotle define as the entire vital principle of any being?

3. What philosopher and statesman does Francis Bacon aspire to be like?

4. What is Schopenhauer's masterpiece?

5. What is Voltaire's literary output?

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