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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, according to Schopenhauer, is the only way to convince someone?
(a) appealing to reason
(b) appealing to self-interest
(c) applying force
(d) applying philosophy

2. What does Kant classify as a result of an oligarchic constitution wherein the spoils of war go to a greedy few?
(a) the constant religious wars that go on in the world
(b) the European revolts again divinely appointed kings
(c) the expansion and conquests of the Prussian regime
(d) the militarism of Europe's expansion into America, Africa and Asia

3. What becomes the Gospel on which Nietzsche's other works comment?
(a) Wagner
(b) Zarathustra
(c) Schopenhauer
(d) himself

4. What is Dewey committed to as the way to determine how man can learn to control and remake a world to accomplish goals?
(a) matriculation
(b) psychology
(c) religion
(d) philosophy

5. What is a critical analysis of knowledge that is independent of all sense experience?
(a) Kant's The Return to Common Sense
(b) Kant's Whole History of Thought
(c) Kant's The Critique of Pure Reason
(d) Kant's Letters to Philosophers

Short Answer Questions

1. Who in Voltaire's life is the young wife of a French Marquis who is away with his regiment?

2. How is Nietzsche found after he suffers a fit of apoplexy?

3. What does William James define as thinking about things in the most comprehensive way?

4. What has a materialistic bias from mathematics and mechanics through the developing sciences?

5. Where is a meeting held to discuss the Republic?

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