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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What natural calamity do European religious leaders label as the punishment of God?
(a) a flood in Germany
(b) a fire in Rome
(c) an earthquake in Lisbon
(d) a volcano in Italy

2. How does Schopenhauer describe his situation?
(a) a rifle without a bullet
(b) a musician playing to a deaf audience
(c) an artist painting for the blind
(d) a rider without a horse

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

4. What does Baruch Spinoza begin to feel about his traditional Jewish education?
(a) tired with how long it takes
(b) unsatisfied with answers he gets in the synagogue
(c) confused by different interpretations of the Torah
(d) fulfilled educationally

5. What does Aristotle devise to integrate the particular with the universal?
(a) metaphysical examination
(b) sophistry
(c) the Aristotlean Method
(d) the syllogism

Short Answer Questions

1. When is Plato born?

2. What does Schopenhauer suggest is a deception of nature that disillusions?

3. To what does Spinoza change his Jewish given name?

4. What does Aristotle establish in Athens?

5. What does Schopenhauer see as the cause of strife and misery?

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