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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Schopenhauer go to write a doctoral dissertation in philosophy?
(a) the library
(b) the country
(c) the university
(d) the monastery

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

3. What does Kant insist must be absolute and derived only from the inner self by direct perception and intuition?
(a) the theological basis for religion
(b) the miraculous basis for religion
(c) the moral basis of religion
(d) the scientific basis for religion

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

5. What affects Schopenhauer as he travels through France and Austria?
(a) the severe changes in the weather
(b) the philosophy of the post-revolutionary period
(c) the clashes between the Catholic church and Protestantism
(d) the chaos, poverty, unrest and misery of the towns he visits

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aristotle establish in Athens?

2. What does Spencer comment on long before Darwin's theory of natural selection becomes popular by the end of the 1800s?

3. What does the publisher of Schopenhauer's book eventually tell him?

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

5. What does Spencer affirm that needs centralization, government power, apathy and individual subordination?

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