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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are Francis Bacon's relative that cause it to be said that his political career began at his birth in 1561?
(a) aristocrats from Spain and the Netherlands
(b) well-placed English aristocrats
(c) pretenders to the English throne
(d) leaders of the Church of England

2. Who is the dominant philosophical thinker of the 19th Century?
(a) Voltaire
(b) Immanuel Kant
(c) Schopenhauer
(d) Nietzsche

3. What new philosophy uses faith and reason to force acceptance of untried assumptions and conclusions?
(a) Fundamentalism
(b) Activism
(c) Martialism
(d) Scholasticism

4. How does the German Bismarck eliminate Europe's delusions, democracy, and ideals?
(a) recognizing that nations have different philosophies
(b) recognizing that nations now aid one another
(c) recognizing that nations are not autonimous.
(d) recognizing that nations do not share altruism

5. How far is Alexander able to spread Greek culture?
(a) into Asia Minor
(b) all over the world
(c) into Persia
(d) into Egypt

Short Answer Questions

1. Like Aristotle, what does Bacon see needs to be removed to avoid revolution?

2. Whose mission is it to save religion from reason and science from skepticism?

3. In what way is Bacon's reconstruction thought superior to that of Aristotle?

4. What are the two contrary valuations of human behavior, according to Nietzsche?

5. What does Nietzsche do that gets him discharged from the military?

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