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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 work of Spencer's theorizes that all ultimate religious ideas eventually become logically inconceivable?
(a) Evolution of Life
(b) First Principles
(c) Voyage of the Beagle
(d) Origin of species

2. Who is the dominant philosophical thinker of the 19th Century?
(a) Voltaire
(b) Nietzsche
(c) Immanuel Kant
(d) Schopenhauer

3. Who suggests that whenever philosophy grows in a country its moral health decays?
(a) Voltaire
(b) Berkeley
(c) Rousseau
(d) Kant

4. Where does the Jewish migration along the Danube and Rhine rivers take the Jews?
(a) Macedonia and Austria
(b) Italy and Armenia
(c) Spain and Portugal
(d) Poland and Russia

5. How does Spinoza find himself after asking questions about Jewish and Christian beliefs?
(a) promoted to head philosopher
(b) left without a source of income
(c) excommunicated from the synagogue
(d) honored as a great thinker

Short Answer Questions

1. In what work does Voltaire discuss the morals and spirit of the nations from Charlemagne to Louis XIII?

2. How old is Francis Bacon when he resolves to turn philosophy from scholastic arguments to illumination and increase of human good?

3. To what end does Socrates develop his Socratic Method?

4. What is a critical analysis of knowledge that is independent of all sense experience?

5. What does Democritus claim that Aristotle disagrees with?

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