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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are Francis Bacon's relative that cause it to be said that his political career began at his birth in 1561?
(a) aristocrats from Spain and the Netherlands
(b) pretenders to the English throne
(c) well-placed English aristocrats
(d) leaders of the Church of England

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

3. What does Bacon suggest should be observed similar to Machiavellian philosophy?
(a) who has the most power
(b) what men do rather than what they should do
(c) the futility of the aristocratic form of government
(d) how to discipline the masses

4. What does Voltaire include in his histories?
(a) art and not science
(b) people and not dates
(c) customs and not laws
(d) society, not just wars

5. What does Baruch Spinoza begin to feel about his traditional Jewish education?
(a) fulfilled educationally
(b) unsatisfied with answers he gets in the synagogue
(c) confused by different interpretations of the Torah
(d) tired with how long it takes

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Eventually what does Alexander's conquests in Asia open up to the Greeks?

3. What does Aristotle establish in Athens?

4. Why is Bacon often accused of being atheistic?

5. What is one result of Aristotle's prolific output of writing?

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