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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Aristotle's foundation of logic?
(a) the way to ask Socratic questions
(b) the art and method of correct thinking
(c) the art of listening
(d) the way to make a syllogysm

2. Like Aristotle, what does Bacon see needs to be removed to avoid revolution?
(a) the ownership of private property
(b) the right to bear arms
(c) issues that cause poverty and discontent
(d) the right to vote

3. Why does Schopenhauer's book receive little attention at first?
(a) Europe is too poor and exhausted to read about its own condition
(b) the publisher prints only a few copies
(c) people have grown tired of reading philosophies
(d) nobody recognizes the name of Schopenhauer

4. Although science and philosophy exists in Greece before their times, who were the teachers who greatly advanced the fields?
(a) Aristotle and Socrates
(b) Aristotle and Onassis
(c) Playto and Prothagorus
(d) Socrates and Plato

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Spinoza explain references to God's halting the natural function of nature on several occasions in the Bible?

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

3. What is a special element of soul in the human being according to Aristotle?

4. Who eventually dominates Greek philosophy and government?

5. Where does Voltaire write The Romances?

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