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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What drives the Jews out of their natural home?
(a) the Holacaust
(b) the conquest of the Crusaders
(c) Roman capture of Jerusalem in 70 A.D
(d) the slave rebellion in Rome

2. What is Voltaire's literary output?
(a) hundreds of manuscripts
(b) ninety-nine volumes
(c) three plays, four novels, and 100 essays
(d) fifty-four volumes of work

3. Who suggests that whenever philosophy grows in a country its moral health decays?
(a) Rousseau
(b) Voltaire
(c) Kant
(d) Berkeley

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

5. Who leads the popular philosophic community of the early 19th century?
(a) Hegel
(b) Schopenhauer
(c) Immanuel Kant
(d) Rousseau

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Spinoza say a literal interpretation of the Bible does?

2. What is the result of Spencer's considering philosophy a generalization of all science?

3. What question does Plato raise to lead into a discussion of Utopia?

4. What motivates Voltaire to accept Prince Frederick's invitation and travel expenses to join him in his court in Potsdam?

5. What does Democritus claim that Aristotle disagrees with?

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