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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

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

3. What is a critical analysis of knowledge that is independent of all sense experience?
(a) Kant's The Return to Common Sense
(b) Kant's The Critique of Pure Reason
(c) Kant's Letters to Philosophers
(d) Kant's Whole History of Thought

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

5. How old is Francis Bacon when he resolves to turn philosophy from scholastic arguments to illumination and increase of human good?
(a) age twenty-four
(b) age thirty
(c) age sixteen
(d) age fifty

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Francis Bacon's relative that cause it to be said that his political career began at his birth in 1561?

2. What bold denial of Kant's is based on reduction of religion to moral faith and hope?

3. What philosopher and statesman does Francis Bacon aspire to be like?

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

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

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