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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who suggests that men are at fault because they chose to live in houses in cities?
(a) Frederick
(b) Voltaire
(c) Bacon
(d) Rousseau

2. What philosopher and statesman does Francis Bacon aspire to be like?
(a) Salon
(b) Cicero
(c) Seneca
(d) Copernicus

3. What does not affect France like it does Germany and England?
(a) The Crusades
(b) The Renaissance
(c) The Reformation
(d) The Revolution

4. Where does Spencer say that Religion is central?
(a) in the life of rural communities
(b) in the life of advanced civilization
(c) in the life of clerics
(d) in the life of primitive civilization

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Schopenhauer agree a priori?

2. What is needed by a strong man who seeks intensity and experience at the cost of tragic woe?

3. What does Baruch Spinoza begin to feel about his traditional Jewish education?

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

5. What is something Voltaire is noted for with his critics?

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