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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Schopenhauer say the intellect does but the will does not?
(a) tires and needs sleep
(b) talks and needs listeners
(c) works and needs direction
(d) reads and needs instruction

3. Where do metaphysics and the nature of God fit into Aristotle's curriculum?
(a) his mathematics
(b) his theology
(c) his rhetoric
(d) his biology

4. What does Schopenhauer suggest is a deception of nature that disillusions?
(a) education and marriage
(b) beauty and happiness
(c) marriage and happiness
(d) love and marriage

5. How does Schopenhauer develop his blunt manner, realistic mind, and knowledge of the world and of men?
(a) his time in the military
(b) his exposure to business
(c) his frequent travels
(d) his informal education

Short Answer Questions

1. What method do all the fields of study--science, discipline, art and music--use in common?

2. What affects Schopenhauer as he travels through France and Austria?

3. What does Schopenhauer see as the cause of strife and misery?

4. What circumstance does Spinoza say keeps the racial existence of the Jews?

5. Where is Francois Arouet when he starts using the pen name, Voltaire?

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