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

2. Who eventually dominates Greek philosophy and government?
(a) the invading Persians
(b) the fierce Spartans
(c) the libertarians
(d) the Macedonians Aristotle and Alexander

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

4. Whose mission is it to save religion from reason and science from skepticism?
(a) Rousseau's
(b) Berkeley's
(c) Voltaire's
(d) Kant's

5. What concept does Spencer share with Schopenhauer?
(a) philosophy is an illusion
(b) human effort is futile
(c) reality cannot be determined
(d) everything is chaos

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates ask Cephalus to define?

2. What circumstance does Spinoza say keeps the racial existence of the Jews?

3. What happened after Spinoza dispensed with faith?

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

5. In what way is Bacon's reconstruction thought superior to that of Aristotle?

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