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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 only three things worthwhile in Plato's ethical solution?
(a) justice, truth, beauty
(b) travel, study, rhetoric
(c) philosophy, music, poetry
(d) beauty, athleticism, education

2. How does Kant classify an action done in accord with one's inner sense of duty?
(a) as good
(b) as holy
(c) as habitual
(d) as isolated

3. In what way is Bacon's reconstruction thought superior to that of Aristotle?
(a) less idealistic and more severe
(b) more practical than theoretical
(c) less detailed, evolving slowly
(d) more flexible for the people

4. How does Spinoza find himself after asking questions about Jewish and Christian beliefs?
(a) promoted to head philosopher
(b) left without a source of income
(c) excommunicated from the synagogue
(d) honored as a great thinker

5. What purpose of Buddhism does Schopenhauer say is superior to Christianity?
(a) spiritual revelation
(b) destruction of the will
(c) hours of meditation
(d) ease of joining the religion

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the second and third volumes of Spencer's work in 1872?

2. What does Spencer call a rationalizing myth for belief that defies conception?

3. What natural calamity do European religious leaders label as the punishment of God?

4. What does the Roman empire eventually become?

5. What, according to Spinoza, is scripture intended to promote?

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