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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 mythology than on science
(b) more on future hope than reality
(c) more on guidence than education
(d) more on reality than on possibility

2. How does Spinoza explain references to God's halting the natural function of nature on several occasions in the Bible?
(a) God and the processes of nature are one
(b) those are allegories of God's power
(c) the meaning is not clear in the scripture
(d) things like that spring from traditions

3. Where do metaphysics and the nature of God fit into Aristotle's curriculum?
(a) his theology
(b) his mathematics
(c) his biology
(d) his rhetoric

4. What does Spinoza do to support himself?
(a) gives violin lessons
(b) writes for a newspaper
(c) tutors students
(d) grinds optical lenses

5. What is the foundation of Plato's Republic?
(a) destroying individuality for an idealized state
(b) allowing individuality to flourish
(c) creating contributing classes of people
(d) putting the state in a subservient position

Short Answer Questions

1. What rouses the world from dogmatism?

2. What do Voltaire's letter criticizing France formulate in the French people?

3. What is the distinction of his book, The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music?

4. What does Schopenhauer say the intellect does but the will does not?

5. What does the publisher of Schopenhauer's book eventually tell him?

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