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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) Hobbes, Locke, and Bentham
(b) Copernicus and other scientists
(c) Plato and Socrates
(d) proponents of the New Atlantis

2. What method do all the fields of study--science, discipline, art and music--use in common?
(a) questions and answers
(b) rote memorization
(c) the art of logic
(d) repetition of basics

3. What is something Voltaire is noted for with his critics?
(a) challenging his enemies to duels
(b) suing his enemies in court
(c) ignoring his enemies
(d) destroying enemies with a pen

4. What is a special element of soul in the human being according to Aristotle?
(a) a power to dream
(b) a power of understanding metaphysics
(c) a power of reason and thought
(d) a power to dominate

5. What does Voltaire do when he is sentenced to the Bastille a second time?
(a) changes his name
(b) escapes to England
(c) appeals to the Regent
(d) goes to Switzerland

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Spinoza change his Jewish given name?

2. Although science and philosophy exists in Greece before their times, who were the teachers who greatly advanced the fields?

3. What, according to Spinoza, is scripture intended to promote?

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

5. What does Spinoza say a literal interpretation of the Bible does?

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