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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who suggests that men are at fault because they chose to live in houses in cities?
(a) Rousseau
(b) Voltaire
(c) Bacon
(d) Frederick

2. How does Spinoza explain references to God's halting the natural function of nature on several occasions in the Bible?
(a) God and the processes of nature are one
(b) things like that spring from traditions
(c) those are allegories of God's power
(d) the meaning is not clear in the scripture

3. What does Spinoza say the language of the Bible is?
(a) metaphorical
(b) mystical
(c) magnatudinal
(d) metaphysical

4. What affects Schopenhauer as he travels through France and Austria?
(a) the chaos, poverty, unrest and misery of the towns he visits
(b) the philosophy of the post-revolutionary period
(c) the severe changes in the weather
(d) the clashes between the Catholic church and Protestantism

5. What does Durant say the beginning of Schopenhauer's book contains?
(a) unreadable prose taken from Kant
(b) lackluster descriptions of Europe
(c) sound and fury signifying nothing
(d) two-hundred pages of second-hand idealism

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Voltaire do when he is sentenced to the Bastille a second time?

2. What philosopher and statesman does Francis Bacon aspire to be like?

3. What does Democritus claim that Aristotle disagrees with?

4. Why does Schopenhauer's book receive little attention at first?

5. At first, what medium does Voltaire use to give humorous expression to his ideas?

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