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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Instead of God and heaven, what does Spencer define as life?
(a) equilibration and dissolution
(b) confusion and evolution
(c) regulation and manumission
(d) desperation and satisfaction

2. Significantly, who gets ignored in Bacon's utopia?
(a) Copernicus and other scientists
(b) Plato and Socrates
(c) Hobbes, Locke, and Bentham
(d) proponents of the New Atlantis

3. Why does Schopenhauer's book receive little attention at first?
(a) Europe is too poor and exhausted to read about its own condition
(b) nobody recognizes the name of Schopenhauer
(c) people have grown tired of reading philosophies
(d) the publisher prints only a few copies

4. What does Spinoza do to support himself?
(a) writes for a newspaper
(b) grinds optical lenses
(c) tutors students
(d) gives violin lessons

5. What are the second and third volumes of Spencer's work in 1872?
(a) The Evolution of Science
(b) The Evolution of Life
(c) The Evolution of Species
(d) The Evolution of Thought

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Spencer affirm that needs centralization, government power, apathy and individual subordination?

3. Eventually what does Alexander's conquests in Asia open up to the Greeks?

4. What rouses the world from dogmatism?

5. What motivates Voltaire to accept Prince Frederick's invitation and travel expenses to join him in his court in Potsdam?

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