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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what does Spencer say the soul of men living humble and precarious lives relies?
(a) more on reality than on possibility
(b) more on future hope than reality
(c) more on guidence than education
(d) more on mythology than on science

2. What new philosophy uses faith and reason to force acceptance of untried assumptions and conclusions?
(a) Fundamentalism
(b) Scholasticism
(c) Martialism
(d) Activism

3. What does Spinoza say a literal interpretation of the Bible does?
(a) gives no scientific evidence
(b) opens the Bible to errors
(c) makes it easy to understand
(d) gives it broader meaning

4. What rouses the world from dogmatism?
(a) Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
(b) the philosophy of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume
(c) Francis Bacon's Essays
(d) Voltaire's Candide

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What method does Kant use to remind theology that substance, cause, and necessity are finite categories?

2. How old is Francis Bacon when he resolves to turn philosophy from scholastic arguments to illumination and increase of human good?

3. Where does Voltaire write The Romances?

4. What is one result of Aristotle's prolific output of writing?

5. What method do all the fields of study--science, discipline, art and music--use in common?

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