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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 Plato say early education should do?
(a) only amuse
(b) teach logistics
(c) form good habits
(d) indoctrinate

2. What does Kant say divides man into sects that does not join them together?
(a) creed and ritual
(b) fear and suspicion
(c) language and custom
(d) authority and legalism

3. What does Bertram Russell's Mysticism and Logic refute?
(a) the illogical nature of mysticism
(b) socialism as a cause of disease
(c) epistemology
(d) mathematics for its rigid impersonality and objectivity

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

5. What motivates Voltaire to accept Prince Frederick's invitation and travel expenses to join him in his court in Potsdam?
(a) an opportunity to learn German
(b) a warrant for his arrest in Paris
(c) his curiosity about German philosophy
(d) his sorrow after the death of his mistress

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the irony of Kant's quiet Prussian life relative to Voltaire's Parisian life?

2. Where does Spencer say that Religion is central?

3. Why does Schopenhauer's book receive little attention at first?

4. When is Plato born?

5. How does Schopenhauer say people rationalize the things they acquire?

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