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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Herbert Spencer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who suggests that men are at fault because they chose to live in houses in cities?
(a) Voltaire
(b) Rousseau
(c) Frederick
(d) Bacon

2. How does Schopenhauer develop his blunt manner, realistic mind, and knowledge of the world and of men?
(a) his informal education
(b) his exposure to business
(c) his time in the military
(d) his frequent travels

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

4. What does Voltaire include in his histories?
(a) customs and not laws
(b) art and not science
(c) people and not dates
(d) society, not just wars

5. What does Bacon suggest should be observed similar to Machiavellian philosophy?
(a) who has the most power
(b) how to discipline the masses
(c) what men do rather than what they should do
(d) the futility of the aristocratic form of government

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Spencer comment on long before Darwin's theory of natural selection becomes popular by the end of the 1800s?

2. Historically, what is an attempt to discover and explain the ultimate nature of reality?

3. What is one result of Aristotle's prolific output of writing?

4. What is the foundation of Plato's Republic?

5. What does Voltaire's Essay on Morals become?

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