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

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

2. What circumstance does Spinoza say keeps the racial existence of the Jews?
(a) having no land to call their own
(b) 3,500 years of Jewish tradition
(c) persecution by Christians
(d) Jewish schools of higher education

3. By the thirteenth century A. D., how does the Church unite the European continent?
(a) by common language and desires
(b) by persecution of heresy
(c) by common faith and supernatural sanctions
(d) by millitancy and fear

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the foundation of Plato's Republic?

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

3. What is one result of Aristotle's prolific output of writing?

4. What does Spinoza call the highest knowledge of universal unity?

5. Like Aristotle, what does Bacon see needs to be removed to avoid revolution?

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