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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Spinoza's Ethic do with Buddhism and Christianity, the philosophy of Machiavelli and Nietzsche, and the democracy of the Greeks?
(a) throws them out in favor of his own ideas
(b) takes only bits and pieces from each
(c) integrates and reconciles all three ethical systems
(d) keeps them separate for different ethnic groups

3. How does Spinoza find himself after asking questions about Jewish and Christian beliefs?
(a) promoted to head philosopher
(b) excommunicated from the synagogue
(c) honored as a great thinker
(d) left without a source of income

4. What does Aristotle define as the entire vital principle of any being?
(a) matter
(b) motion
(c) soul
(d) energy

5. What is Voltaire's literary output?
(a) fifty-four volumes of work
(b) hundreds of manuscripts
(c) three plays, four novels, and 100 essays
(d) ninety-nine volumes

Short Answer Questions

1. What early 19th century philosopher is included in a group of pessimists, poets and composers considered the voices of the age?

2. What does Voltaire's father tell him will come from an education in literature?

3. How does Schopenhauer develop his blunt manner, realistic mind, and knowledge of the world and of men?

4. What does Voltaire include in his histories?

5. What is the first of four books written by Spinoza?

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