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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Spinoza suggest the aim of Biblical language is meant to do?
(a) to compete with Greek mythology
(b) to attract intellectuals
(c) to conceal great mysteries
(d) to attract the imagination of popular minds

2. Why does Spinoza say an allegorical interpretation of the Bible allows it to be?
(a) not difficult to understand
(b) not contrary to reason
(c) not a great mystery
(d) not a book of rules and regulations

3. What does Aristotle define as the entire vital principle of any being?
(a) soul
(b) matter
(c) motion
(d) energy

4. What is something Voltaire is noted for with his critics?
(a) challenging his enemies to duels
(b) ignoring his enemies
(c) destroying enemies with a pen
(d) suing his enemies in court

5. What, according to Spinoza, is scripture intended to promote?
(a) literature rather than science
(b) reason over superstition
(c) devotion rather than to reason
(d) clarity rather than confusion

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Voltaire's Essay on Morals become?

3. What does Spinoza's Ethic do with Buddhism and Christianity, the philosophy of Machiavelli and Nietzsche, and the democracy of the Greeks?

4. At first, what medium does Voltaire use to give humorous expression to his ideas?

5. In what work does Spencer freely express his best ideas with suggestive generalization and political philosophy?

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