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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the foundation of Plato's Republic?
(a) creating contributing classes of people
(b) allowing individuality to flourish
(c) destroying individuality for an idealized state
(d) putting the state in a subservient position

2. Who is a contemporary of Kant's who writes so as to confound, confuse and attract disciples at the same time?
(a) Russell
(b) Voltaire
(c) Rousseau
(d) Hegel

3. What is Voltaire's literary output?
(a) ninety-nine volumes
(b) fifty-four volumes of work
(c) hundreds of manuscripts
(d) three plays, four novels, and 100 essays

4. Who in Voltaire's life is the young wife of a French Marquis who is away with his regiment?
(a) his neice
(b) his mistress
(c) his muse
(d) his secretary

5. Why is Bacon often accused of being atheistic?
(a) because he talks about natrue rather than God
(b) because his philosophy is secular and rationalistic
(c) because he denies the authority of the Church
(d) because he seldom attends church

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Voltaire include in his histories?

2. Significantly, who gets ignored in Bacon's utopia?

3. How does Spinoza find himself after asking questions about Jewish and Christian beliefs?

4. To what does Spinoza change his Jewish given name?

5. What concept does Spencer share with Schopenhauer?

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