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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what famous composer does does Nietzsche study the piano?
(a) Richard Wagner
(b) Johan Sebastian Bach
(c) Vivaldi
(d) Chopin

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

3. What does Nietzsche claim causes fulfillment of woman and narrowing of man?
(a) marriage
(b) charitable deeds
(c) children
(d) education

4. How is Nietzsche found after he suffers a fit of apoplexy?
(a) wandering aimlessly on the streets
(b) locked in his bedroom
(c) mad, playing the piano, singing and crying
(d) sitting in a tub of cold water

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Schopenhauer go to write a doctoral dissertation in philosophy?

3. What early 19th century philosopher is included in a group of pessimists, poets and composers considered the voices of the age?

4. Why does Nietzsche claim that morality and theology must be reconstructed?

5. What does Bergson uphold that is distinct from the organism, but is limited by its characteristics?

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