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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Friedrich Nietzsche.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How far is Alexander able to spread Greek culture?
(a) into Persia
(b) all over the world
(c) into Egypt
(d) into Asia Minor

2. Historically, what is an attempt to discover and explain the ultimate nature of reality?
(a) theology
(b) metaphysics
(c) physics
(d) biology

3. What method do all the fields of study--science, discipline, art and music--use in common?
(a) repetition of basics
(b) rote memorization
(c) questions and answers
(d) the art of logic

4. What is Schopenhauer's masterpiece?
(a) The Will of Man
(b) The Fall of Rome
(c) The Idea of the World
(d) The World as Will and Idea

5. What does Spencer affirm that needs centralization, government power, apathy and individual subordination?
(a) legalism
(b) democracy
(c) regulation
(d) socialism

Short Answer Questions

1. In what work does Voltaire discuss the morals and spirit of the nations from Charlemagne to Louis XIII?

2. What event makes the rival schools of Stoicism and Epicureanism split philosophically?

3. What does Spinoza suggest the aim of Biblical language is meant to do?

4. What does Kant set out to prove is innate and does not come from experience?

5. What does Nietzsche claim the English Darwinians, French positivists and German socialists reject ?

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