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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the first of four books written by Spinoza?
(a) The Philosophy of the Ages
(b) The Fall of the Roman Empire
(c) The Treatise on Religion and the State
(d) The History of War

3. Where does the Jewish migration along the Danube and Rhine rivers take the Jews?
(a) Poland and Russia
(b) Italy and Armenia
(c) Spain and Portugal
(d) Macedonia and Austria

4. What does Bacon suggest should be observed similar to Machiavellian philosophy?
(a) what men do rather than what they should do
(b) how to discipline the masses
(c) the futility of the aristocratic form of government
(d) who has the most power

5. At what age does Plato advocate taking children from their parents to avoid learning bad habits?
(a) at adolescence
(b) at birth
(c) age ten
(d) age three

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Schopenhauer describe his situation?

2. What is a special element of soul in the human being according to Aristotle?

3. On what does Spencer say the soul of men living humble and precarious lives relies?

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

5. By the thirteenth century A. D., how does the Church unite the European continent?

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