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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eventually what does Alexander's conquests in Asia open up to the Greeks?
(a) lavish lifestyles
(b) important trade routes
(c) Eastern monotheism
(d) cults and superstitious faiths

2. To what does Schopenhauer agree a priori?
(a) the will is easily controlled
(b) the individual believes he is controlled
(c) the will is developed through experience
(d) the individual believes his will is free

3. What is the distinction of his book, The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music?
(a) it sold out in three weeks
(b) it is translated into 30 languages
(c) it is his first and only
(d) it defines classic tragedy

4. To answer Rousseau, what satirical story does Voltaire write about the best of all possible worlds?
(a) The Misanthrope
(b) Atlantis
(c) Utopia
(d) Candide

5. In what work does Voltaire discuss the morals and spirit of the nations from Charlemagne to Louis XIII?
(a) The History of Morals
(b) The Essay on Morals
(c) The Short Novels
(d) The Romances

Short Answer Questions

1. Reducing everything through the Socratic Method, what do Socrates and Cephalus agree to discuss?

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

3. What is Dewey committed to as the way to determine how man can learn to control and remake a world to accomplish goals?

4. What had Kant determined to be a Thing-in-Itself that can be conceived in thought but not experienced?

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

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