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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 bold denial of Kant's is based on reduction of religion to moral faith and hope?
(a) the denial of logical theology
(b) the denial of rational theology
(c) the denial of inspired theology
(d) the denial of pantheology

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

3. When does Plato return to Athens and begin to write?
(a) at the age of thirty while touring the middle east
(b) at the age of twenty-eight when Socrates dies
(c) at the age of fifty in 397 B. C.
(d) at the age of forty in 387 B.C.

4. To what end does Socrates develop his Socratic Method?
(a) to test the assumptions of his pupils
(b) to impress the multitudes
(c) to perfom biological experiments
(d) to open a private university

5. What does Kant set out to prove is innate and does not come from experience?
(a) moral sense
(b) religious sense
(c) common sense
(d) directional sense

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. To answer Rousseau, what satirical story does Voltaire write about the best of all possible worlds?

3. What rouses the world from dogmatism?

4. How does Schopenhauer describe his situation?

5. Where does the Jewish migration along the Danube and Rhine rivers take the Jews?

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