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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rouses the world from dogmatism?
(a) Voltaire's Candide
(b) Francis Bacon's Essays
(c) the philosophy of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume
(d) Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

2. To what does Spinoza change his Jewish given name?
(a) the Russian name, Igor
(b) the gentile name, Benedict
(c) the English name, John
(d) the German name, Hans

3. What philosophy does Bacon accept in his Essays?
(a) a Platonic ideal
(b) a Stoic position
(c) a tendency toward Romanticism
(d) an Epicurean ethic

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

5. What does Plato say is a science and art one must live and prepare for?
(a) statesmanship
(b) oratory
(c) military leadership
(d) teaching the young

Short Answer Questions

1. With what famous composer does does Nietzsche study the piano?

2. Why does Nietzsche claim that morality and theology must be reconstructed?

3. How does Schopenhauer say people rationalize the things they acquire?

4. Reducing everything through the Socratic Method, what do Socrates and Cephalus agree to discuss?

5. What does Aristotle establish in Athens?

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