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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the thirteenth century A. D., how does the Church unite the European continent?
(a) by common faith and supernatural sanctions
(b) by persecution of heresy
(c) by millitancy and fear
(d) by common language and desires

2. What does Schopenhauer see as the cause of strife and misery?
(a) ideas
(b) the will
(c) religion
(d) wars

3. What does Voltaire do when he is sentenced to the Bastille a second time?
(a) goes to Switzerland
(b) appeals to the Regent
(c) changes his name
(d) escapes to England

4. At his birth in 384 B.C., into what kind of family is Aristotle born?
(a) a family of travelers
(b) a military family
(c) a medical family
(d) a family of philosophers

5. What does Nietzsche claim the English Darwinians, French positivists and German socialists reject ?
(a) reliance on science for answers
(b) all who have other opinions
(c) Christian theology but retain its morality
(d) any kind of taught morality

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nietzsche do that gets him discharged from the military?

2. What are the two contrary valuations of human behavior, according to Nietzsche?

3. How is Nietzsche found after he suffers a fit of apoplexy?

4. What natural calamity do European religious leaders label as the punishment of God?

5. What has a materialistic bias from mathematics and mechanics through the developing sciences?

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