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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Schopenhauer's book receive little attention at first?
(a) nobody recognizes the name of Schopenhauer
(b) the publisher prints only a few copies
(c) people have grown tired of reading philosophies
(d) Europe is too poor and exhausted to read about its own condition

2. What does not affect France like it does Germany and England?
(a) The Crusades
(b) The Revolution
(c) The Reformation
(d) The Renaissance

3. What does Kant call knowledge that is independent of sense-experience and whose truth is certain before experience?
(a) evolution of concepts
(b) the original sense of connoting sensation
(c) a priori
(d) necessary and non-experiential

4. What does Voltaire's Essay on Morals become?
(a) the basis of modern historical science
(b) a template for how to do research
(c) a book banned by every nations
(d) the last of his great works

5. Although science and philosophy exists in Greece before their times, who were the teachers who greatly advanced the fields?
(a) Aristotle and Onassis
(b) Aristotle and Socrates
(c) Playto and Prothagorus
(d) Socrates and Plato

Short Answer Questions

1. Who leads the popular philosophic community of the early 19th century?

2. What does Nietzsche claim causes fulfillment of woman and narrowing of man?

3. What affects Schopenhauer as he travels through France and Austria?

4. Significantly, who gets ignored in Bacon's utopia?

5. What is lacking in Aristotle's philosophy that is so evident in Plato's?

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