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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What biological notion does Aristotle reject?
(a) survival of the fittest
(b) vegetarianism
(c) evolution of species
(d) extinction of species

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

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

4. What is a special element of soul in the human being according to Aristotle?
(a) a power to dominate
(b) a power to dream
(c) a power of reason and thought
(d) a power of understanding metaphysics

5. What is the first of four books written by Spinoza?
(a) The Fall of the Roman Empire
(b) The Treatise on Religion and the State
(c) The Philosophy of the Ages
(d) The History of War

Short Answer Questions

1. What does not affect France like it does Germany and England?

2. What does Spencer define as the subjective accompaniment of mechanically evolved nerve processes?

3. What is Kant's critical analysis of the moral basis of religion?

4. What rouses the world from dogmatism?

5. Who are the students of Socrates?

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