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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who leads the popular philosophic community of the early 19th century?
(a) Immanuel Kant
(b) Rousseau
(c) Schopenhauer
(d) Hegel

3. Why does Spinoza say an allegorical interpretation of the Bible allows it to be?
(a) not contrary to reason
(b) not difficult to understand
(c) not a great mystery
(d) not a book of rules and regulations

4. What is lacking in Aristotle's philosophy that is so evident in Plato's?
(a) a clear objective
(b) a means of testing
(c) a reforming zeal
(d) a good use of rhetoric

5. Who are the students of Socrates?
(a) misfits of society
(b) the leaders of the athenian democracy
(c) a mixed group of young learned men
(d) the sons of the Athenian elite

Short Answer Questions

1. Who suggests that whenever philosophy grows in a country its moral health decays?

2. By Spencer's time, what is the third stage of philosophical thought?

3. How does Kant classify an action done in accord with one's inner sense of duty?

4. On what does Spencer say the soul of men living humble and precarious lives relies?

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

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