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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who in Voltaire's life is the young wife of a French Marquis who is away with his regiment?
(a) his neice
(b) his secretary
(c) his muse
(d) his mistress

2. What does Aristotle teach at the Lyceum?
(a) physical and mental training
(b) biology and natural sciences
(c) the socratic Method
(d) athletics and mathematics

3. What does Spinoza say a literal interpretation of the Bible does?
(a) gives no scientific evidence
(b) gives it broader meaning
(c) makes it easy to understand
(d) opens the Bible to errors

4. How is Nietzsche found after he suffers a fit of apoplexy?
(a) wandering aimlessly on the streets
(b) mad, playing the piano, singing and crying
(c) locked in his bedroom
(d) sitting in a tub of cold water

5. What question does Plato raise to lead into a discussion of Utopia?
(a) if an oligarchy is an appropriate government
(b) if everyone is satisfied
(c) if democracy in Athens is working
(d) if it is better to be good or to be strong

Short Answer Questions

1. What purpose of Buddhism does Schopenhauer say is superior to Christianity?

2. What does Spencer comment on long before Darwin's theory of natural selection becomes popular by the end of the 1800s?

3. What does Dewey think about metaphysics?

4. Significantly, who gets ignored in Bacon's utopia?

5. What student of Aristotle becomes a major historical figure?

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