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

2. What becomes the unifying element in Plato's description of justice?
(a) the quality of the laws
(b) the sharing of the wealth
(c) the good of the children
(d) the welfare of the group

3. How old is Francis Bacon when he resolves to turn philosophy from scholastic arguments to illumination and increase of human good?
(a) age fifty
(b) age thirty
(c) age sixteen
(d) age twenty-four

4. Whose mission is it to save religion from reason and science from skepticism?
(a) Voltaire's
(b) Rousseau's
(c) Berkeley's
(d) Kant's

5. What student of Aristotle becomes a major historical figure?
(a) Julius Caesar
(b) Alexander the Great
(c) Philip of Macedon
(d) Ulysses

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who suggests that men are at fault because they chose to live in houses in cities?

3. What early 19th century philosopher is included in a group of pessimists, poets and composers considered the voices of the age?

4. Where does the Jewish migration along the Danube and Rhine rivers take the Jews?

5. What does Voltaire include in his histories?

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