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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are two theories from the Orient that gain acceptance in Greece?
(a) Stoicism and Epicureanism
(b) Polytheism and atheism
(c) Buddhism and Hinduism
(d) Confucianism and communism

2. Why is Bacon often accused of being atheistic?
(a) because he talks about natrue rather than God
(b) because he denies the authority of the Church
(c) because he seldom attends church
(d) because his philosophy is secular and rationalistic

3. What does Kant insist must be absolute and derived only from the inner self by direct perception and intuition?
(a) the scientific basis for religion
(b) the theological basis for religion
(c) the miraculous basis for religion
(d) the moral basis of religion

4. Significantly, who gets ignored in Bacon's utopia?
(a) Hobbes, Locke, and Bentham
(b) Plato and Socrates
(c) proponents of the New Atlantis
(d) Copernicus and other scientists

5. What does Nietzsche he write about in Thus Spake Zarathustra?
(a) Ra-Aman
(b) Buddha
(c) Zoroaster
(d) Confucius

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the German Bismarck eliminate Europe's delusions, democracy, and ideals?

3. Eventually what does Alexander's conquests in Asia open up to the Greeks?

4. What does Kant call knowledge that is independent of sense-experience and whose truth is certain before experience?

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

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