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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does William James describe as a mirror of external and physical reality?
(a) thought
(b) philosophy
(c) psychology
(d) science

3. What circumstance does Spinoza say keeps the racial existence of the Jews?
(a) 3,500 years of Jewish tradition
(b) having no land to call their own
(c) Jewish schools of higher education
(d) persecution by Christians

4. What does Santayana consider to be an unstable combination of Greek theology and Jewish morality?
(a) Mormonism
(b) Christianity
(c) European philosophy
(d) communism

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Voltaire write The Romances?

2. Although science and philosophy exists in Greece before their times, who were the teachers who greatly advanced the fields?

3. Who in Voltaire's life is the young wife of a French Marquis who is away with his regiment?

4. What does Baruch Spinoza begin to feel about his traditional Jewish education?

5. What is Kant's critical analysis of the moral basis of religion?

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