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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Contemporary European Philosophers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What method does Kant use to remind theology that substance, cause, and necessity are finite categories?
(a) Aristotle's logic
(b) the Socratic Method
(c) animal instinct
(d) transcendental dialectic

2. In what work does Voltaire discuss the morals and spirit of the nations from Charlemagne to Louis XIII?
(a) The Essay on Morals
(b) The History of Morals
(c) The Romances
(d) The Short Novels

3. To what does Schopenhauer agree a priori?
(a) the individual believes he is controlled
(b) the individual believes his will is free
(c) the will is developed through experience
(d) the will is easily controlled

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

5. What rouses the world from dogmatism?
(a) the philosophy of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume
(b) Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
(c) Voltaire's Candide
(d) Francis Bacon's Essays

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Spencer comment on long before Darwin's theory of natural selection becomes popular by the end of the 1800s?

2. With what famous composer does does Nietzsche study the piano?

3. Why does Spinoza say an allegorical interpretation of the Bible allows it to be?

4. What is the foundation of Plato's Republic?

5. What early 19th century philosopher is included in a group of pessimists, poets and composers considered the voices of the age?

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