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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) leaders of the Church of England
(b) aristocrats from Spain and the Netherlands
(c) pretenders to the English throne
(d) well-placed English aristocrats

2. What does Bacon call for elimination in his philosophy?
(a) public education
(b) a private banking system
(c) several errors he calls idols
(d) the model of the philosopher king

3. What philosopher and statesman does Francis Bacon aspire to be like?
(a) Salon
(b) Seneca
(c) Copernicus
(d) Cicero

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

5. What is needed by a strong man who seeks intensity and experience at the cost of tragic woe?
(a) optimism
(b) assistance
(c) altruism
(d) pessimism

Short Answer Questions

1. Who suggests that whenever philosophy grows in a country its moral health decays?

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

3. What does Bacon suggest should be observed similar to Machiavellian philosophy?

4. What does Kant insist must be absolute and derived only from the inner self by direct perception and intuition?

5. What does Nietzsche claim the English Darwinians, French positivists and German socialists reject ?

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