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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is one result of Aristotle's prolific output of writing?
(a) a large amount of errors
(b) a definitive answer to all philosophical questions
(c) an error free reference library
(d) a need to build larger libraries

3. On what does Spencer say the soul of men living humble and precarious lives relies?
(a) more on guidence than education
(b) more on reality than on possibility
(c) more on mythology than on science
(d) more on future hope than reality

4. What purpose of Buddhism does Schopenhauer say is superior to Christianity?
(a) destruction of the will
(b) hours of meditation
(c) spiritual revelation
(d) ease of joining the religion

5. What is Kant's critical analysis of the moral basis of religion?
(a) The Critique of Scriptures
(b) The Critique of Theology
(c) The Critique of Science
(d) The Critique of Practical Reason

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the irony of Kant's quiet Prussian life relative to Voltaire's Parisian life?

2. What becomes the Gospel on which Nietzsche's other works comment?

3. Who is the author of Time and Free-will?

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

5. How does every society and government ruins itself?

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