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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Contemporary American Philosophers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. What does Nietzsche he write about in Thus Spake Zarathustra?
(a) Ra-Aman
(b) Zoroaster
(c) Confucius
(d) Buddha

3. How does Reason in Religion portray Santayana's love for Catholicism?
(a) as longing for a woman who deceives him
(b) as sitting in a dark room with only one candle
(c) as lost in a desert of hopelessness
(d) as adrift on a stormy sea

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

5. What does Spinoza's Ethic do with Buddhism and Christianity, the philosophy of Machiavelli and Nietzsche, and the democracy of the Greeks?
(a) keeps them separate for different ethnic groups
(b) takes only bits and pieces from each
(c) throws them out in favor of his own ideas
(d) integrates and reconciles all three ethical systems

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As Russell visits China, he develops new perspectives and better understanding of a profounder culture to what effect?

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

4. What does Voltaire do when he is sentenced to the Bastille a second time?

5. When does Plato return to Athens and begin to write?

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