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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 does Russell conclude is too big for his mathematical formulas?
(a) space
(b) the world
(c) philosophy
(d) the differences between cultures

2. Who is the dominant philosophical thinker of the 19th Century?
(a) Voltaire
(b) Nietzsche
(c) Immanuel Kant
(d) Schopenhauer

3. What causes Bergson to become a famous popular philosopher?
(a) his work, Creative Evolution
(b) his winning the Nobel Prize
(c) his world travels and lectures
(d) his denouncement of Darwin

4. 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

5. What does Nietzsche claim the English Darwinians, French positivists and German socialists reject ?
(a) all who have other opinions
(b) any kind of taught morality
(c) reliance on science for answers
(d) Christian theology but retain its morality

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the irony of Kant's quiet Prussian life relative to Voltaire's Parisian life?

2. What are two theories from the Orient that gain acceptance in Greece?

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

4. What is Benedetto Croce's first book about?

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

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