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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What drives the Jews out of their natural home?
(a) the conquest of the Crusaders
(b) the slave rebellion in Rome
(c) Roman capture of Jerusalem in 70 A.D
(d) the Holacaust

2. What philosophy does Bacon accept in his Essays?
(a) a Stoic position
(b) a tendency toward Romanticism
(c) an Epicurean ethic
(d) a Platonic ideal

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

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

5. What purpose of Buddhism does Schopenhauer say is superior to Christianity?
(a) hours of meditation
(b) destruction of the will
(c) spiritual revelation
(d) ease of joining the religion

Short Answer Questions

1. Who leads the popular philosophic community of the early 19th century?

2. Why is Bacon often accused of being atheistic?

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

4. What happened after Spinoza dispensed with faith?

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

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