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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Contemporary European Philosophers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Voltaire's letter criticizing France formulate in the French people?
(a) the strongest of French nationalism
(b) the theoretical groundwork for Revolution
(c) a refusal to perform his plays
(d) a distaste for Voltaire's writing

2. What is a special element of soul in the human being according to Aristotle?
(a) a power to dream
(b) a power of reason and thought
(c) a power to dominate
(d) a power of understanding metaphysics

3. What method does Kant use to remind theology that substance, cause, and necessity are finite categories?
(a) Aristotle's logic
(b) the Socratic Method
(c) animal instinct
(d) transcendental dialectic

4. Who is the author of Time and Free-will?
(a) Spencer
(b) Schopenhauer
(c) Descartes
(d) Henri Bergson

5. What is the foundation of Plato's Republic?
(a) allowing individuality to flourish
(b) creating contributing classes of people
(c) destroying individuality for an idealized state
(d) putting the state in a subservient position

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Nietzsche found after he suffers a fit of apoplexy?

2. What causes Bergson to become a famous popular philosopher?

3. Who eventually dominates Greek philosophy and government?

4. What question does Plato raise to lead into a discussion of Utopia?

5. To answer Rousseau, what satirical story does Voltaire write about the best of all possible worlds?

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