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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Schopenhauer go to write a doctoral dissertation in philosophy?
(a) the country
(b) the monastery
(c) the library
(d) the university

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

3. How does Voltaire think what is wrong with most recorded history could be corrected?
(a) only scholars should write history
(b) only philosophers should write history
(c) history should only be written by scientists
(d) history should be forgotten

4. Where does Spencer say that Religion is central?
(a) in the life of primitive civilization
(b) in the life of rural communities
(c) in the life of advanced civilization
(d) in the life of clerics

5. How does Schopenhauer say people rationalize the things they acquire?
(a) a need to keep current in a changing world
(b) only wanting things that have a built in reason
(c) reasons are found after getting what is wanted or willed
(d) reasons are manufactured to suit the climate

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to Schopenhauer, is the only way to convince someone?

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

3. What becomes the Gospel on which Nietzsche's other works comment?

4. Why does Russell visit Russia?

5. Eventually what does Alexander's conquests in Asia open up to the Greeks?

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