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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 does Bergson uphold that is distinct from the organism, but is limited by its characteristics?
(a) pain
(b) hearing
(c) consciousness
(d) eyesight

2. What biological notion does Aristotle reject?
(a) survival of the fittest
(b) vegetarianism
(c) extinction of species
(d) evolution of species

3. What does the King of Syracuse learn that causes him to cancel his invitation to Plato to organize Utopia?
(a) that he will have to work for a living
(b) that Plato is unpopular in Athens
(c) that he must leave his throne
(d) that he must share his wealth

4. What circumstance does Spinoza say keeps the racial existence of the Jews?
(a) Jewish schools of higher education
(b) persecution by Christians
(c) having no land to call their own
(d) 3,500 years of Jewish tradition

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Plato say is a science and art one must live and prepare for?

2. What is Benedetto Croce's first book about?

3. Whose mission is it to save religion from reason and science from skepticism?

4. How does the German Bismarck eliminate Europe's delusions, democracy, and ideals?

5. What rouses the world from dogmatism?

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