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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 Spencer label as the art of methodical self-confusion?
(a) scientology
(b) frenology
(c) psychology
(d) metaphysics

2. What is needed by a strong man who seeks intensity and experience at the cost of tragic woe?
(a) pessimism
(b) altruism
(c) optimism
(d) assistance

3. What does Kant say divides man into sects that does not join them together?
(a) language and custom
(b) creed and ritual
(c) authority and legalism
(d) fear and suspicion

4. What does Schopenhauer say is the first law of sexual attraction?
(a) physical beauty
(b) monetary security
(c) fitness to procreate
(d) availability

5. What is Voltaire's literary output?
(a) ninety-nine volumes
(b) three plays, four novels, and 100 essays
(c) hundreds of manuscripts
(d) fifty-four volumes of work

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Considering the meaning of an idea through consequences of the action to which it leads, what does James call truth?

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

4. What are the only three things worthwhile in Plato's ethical solution?

5. To answer Rousseau, what satirical story does Voltaire write about the best of all possible worlds?

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