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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 Aristotle define as the entire vital principle of any being?
(a) energy
(b) soul
(c) matter
(d) motion

2. In what work does Voltaire discuss the morals and spirit of the nations from Charlemagne to Louis XIII?
(a) The Romances
(b) The History of Morals
(c) The Essay on Morals
(d) The Short Novels

3. At his birth in 384 B.C., into what kind of family is Aristotle born?
(a) a family of travelers
(b) a military family
(c) a family of philosophers
(d) a medical family

4. What becomes the Gospel on which Nietzsche's other works comment?
(a) himself
(b) Zarathustra
(c) Schopenhauer
(d) Wagner

5. What does Democritus claim that Aristotle disagrees with?
(a) the soul is imaginary
(b) the soul is material
(c) the soul is temporary
(d) there is no such thing as soul

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bacon call for elimination in his philosophy?

2. What does Voltaire's Essay on Morals become?

3. How does Kant classify an action done in accord with one's inner sense of duty?

4. What does Bertram Russell's Mysticism and Logic refute?

5. What drives the Jews out of their natural home?

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