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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 work of Spencer's theorizes that all ultimate religious ideas eventually become logically inconceivable?
(a) Origin of species
(b) First Principles
(c) Voyage of the Beagle
(d) Evolution of Life

2. Why does Nietzsche claim that morality and theology must be reconstructed?
(a) to upgrade the language
(b) to fit the growth of evolutionary theory
(c) to make it more appealing
(d) to give it more importance

3. How does Schopenhauer develop his blunt manner, realistic mind, and knowledge of the world and of men?
(a) his informal education
(b) his exposure to business
(c) his time in the military
(d) his frequent travels

4. Where does the Jewish migration along the Danube and Rhine rivers take the Jews?
(a) Italy and Armenia
(b) Poland and Russia
(c) Spain and Portugal
(d) Macedonia and Austria

5. What does Voltaire's father tell him will come from an education in literature?
(a) make him indispensible to society
(b) make him useless to society
(c) make him a bookworm
(d) make him a great author

Short Answer Questions

1. To what end does Socrates develop his Socratic Method?

2. Who is the dominant philosophical thinker of the 19th Century?

3. Who leads the popular philosophic community of the early 19th century?

4. What does Kant set out to prove is innate and does not come from experience?

5. What do the concepts of praise or blame indicate according to Aristotle?

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