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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 Nietzsche claim causes fulfillment of woman and narrowing of man?
(a) education
(b) charitable deeds
(c) marriage
(d) children

2. What is the irony of Kant's quiet Prussian life relative to Voltaire's Parisian life?
(a) both of them lack credibility in their day
(b) both of them get into trouble with their governments
(c) both of them live in exile
(d) both of them become quite wealthy

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

4. In what way is Bacon's reconstruction thought superior to that of Aristotle?
(a) more flexible for the people
(b) less idealistic and more severe
(c) less detailed, evolving slowly
(d) more practical than theoretical

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does Immanuel Kant's work have when it is published in 1781?

2. What does Kant set out to prove is innate and does not come from experience?

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

4. With what famous composer does does Nietzsche study the piano?

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

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