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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schopenhauer say is the first law of sexual attraction?
(a) monetary security
(b) availability
(c) fitness to procreate
(d) physical beauty

2. What does Aristotle devise to integrate the particular with the universal?
(a) the Aristotlean Method
(b) the syllogism
(c) sophistry
(d) metaphysical examination

3. What biological notion does Aristotle reject?
(a) vegetarianism
(b) extinction of species
(c) survival of the fittest
(d) evolution of species

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

5. What does Aristotle teach at the Lyceum?
(a) athletics and mathematics
(b) physical and mental training
(c) the socratic Method
(d) biology and natural sciences

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the concepts of praise or blame indicate according to Aristotle?

2. Where does Voltaire write The Romances?

3. At his birth in 384 B.C., into what kind of family is Aristotle born?

4. What does not affect France like it does Germany and England?

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

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