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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Spencer say that Religion is central?
(a) in the life of advanced civilization
(b) in the life of clerics
(c) in the life of primitive civilization
(d) in the life of rural communities

2. What does Russell conclude is too big for his mathematical formulas?
(a) the differences between cultures
(b) the world
(c) philosophy
(d) space

3. What does Spencer affirm that needs centralization, government power, apathy and individual subordination?
(a) socialism
(b) regulation
(c) legalism
(d) democracy

4. Who is the author of Time and Free-will?
(a) Descartes
(b) Spencer
(c) Schopenhauer
(d) Henri Bergson

5. What is the foundation of Plato's Republic?
(a) creating contributing classes of people
(b) putting the state in a subservient position
(c) allowing individuality to flourish
(d) destroying individuality for an idealized state

Short Answer Questions

1. At first, what medium does Voltaire use to give humorous expression to his ideas?

2. What is Spinoza's second book?

3. What does Kant set out to prove is innate and does not come from experience?

4. What biological notion does Aristotle reject?

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

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