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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Voltaire think what is wrong with most recorded history could be corrected?
(a) history should be forgotten
(b) history should only be written by scientists
(c) only philosophers should write history
(d) only scholars should write history

4. By the thirteenth century A. D., how does the Church unite the European continent?
(a) by persecution of heresy
(b) by millitancy and fear
(c) by common faith and supernatural sanctions
(d) by common language and desires

5. Instead of God and heaven, what does Spencer define as life?
(a) regulation and manumission
(b) confusion and evolution
(c) equilibration and dissolution
(d) desperation and satisfaction

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened after Spinoza dispensed with faith?

2. How far is Alexander able to spread Greek culture?

3. What are two theories from the Orient that gain acceptance in Greece?

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

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

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