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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Spinoza's second book?
(a) The Treatise on Religion and the State
(b) Ethics
(c) The Political Treatise
(d) The Improvement of the Intellect

2. Who in Voltaire's life is the young wife of a French Marquis who is away with his regiment?
(a) his neice
(b) his mistress
(c) his secretary
(d) his muse

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

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

5. To what does Spinoza change his Jewish given name?
(a) the English name, John
(b) the gentile name, Benedict
(c) the German name, Hans
(d) the Russian name, Igor

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Spinoza do to support himself?

2. What does the publisher of Schopenhauer's book eventually tell him?

3. To what does Schopenhauer agree a priori?

4. What motivates Voltaire to accept Prince Frederick's invitation and travel expenses to join him in his court in Potsdam?

5. What does Baruch Spinoza begin to feel about his traditional Jewish education?

(see the answer key)

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