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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Nietzsche claim that morality and theology must be reconstructed?
(a) to make it more appealing
(b) to fit the growth of evolutionary theory
(c) to upgrade the language
(d) to give it more importance

2. What are the second and third volumes of Spencer's work in 1872?
(a) The Evolution of Science
(b) The Evolution of Life
(c) The Evolution of Species
(d) The Evolution of Thought

3. 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

4. What does Bergson uphold that is distinct from the organism, but is limited by its characteristics?
(a) consciousness
(b) pain
(c) hearing
(d) eyesight

5. What rouses the world from dogmatism?
(a) Voltaire's Candide
(b) Francis Bacon's Essays
(c) the philosophy of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume
(d) Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

6. What contemporary philosophers does Durant discuss in this chapter?
(a) Descarte and Molier
(b) Churchill and Washington Irving
(c) Bergson, Croce and Bertrand Russell
(d) Edgar Cayce and Roger Miller

7. What bold denial of Kant's is based on reduction of religion to moral faith and hope?
(a) the denial of inspired theology
(b) the denial of rational theology
(c) the denial of pantheology
(d) the denial of logical theology

8. With what famous composer does does Nietzsche study the piano?
(a) Richard Wagner
(b) Johan Sebastian Bach
(c) Chopin
(d) Vivaldi

9. What does Spencer affirm that needs centralization, government power, apathy and individual subordination?
(a) democracy
(b) socialism
(c) regulation
(d) legalism

10. What does Schopenhauer say the intellect does but the will does not?
(a) reads and needs instruction
(b) works and needs direction
(c) talks and needs listeners
(d) tires and needs sleep

11. What does Durant say the beginning of Schopenhauer's book contains?
(a) sound and fury signifying nothing
(b) two-hundred pages of second-hand idealism
(c) unreadable prose taken from Kant
(d) lackluster descriptions of Europe

12. 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) sitting in a tub of cold water
(d) locked in his bedroom

13. What does Spencer define as the subjective accompaniment of mechanically evolved nerve processes?
(a) mind
(b) biology
(c) heart
(d) education

14. What has a materialistic bias from mathematics and mechanics through the developing sciences?
(a) modernism
(b) philosophical speculation
(c) research and development
(d) capitalism

15. What work of Spencer's theorizes that all ultimate religious ideas eventually become logically inconceivable?
(a) Voyage of the Beagle
(b) Evolution of Life
(c) Origin of species
(d) First Principles

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Benedetto Croce's first book about?

2. What does Bertram Russell's Mysticism and Logic refute?

3. What does Bergson see as active forces in evolution?

4. Without what does Kant say sensations cannot become perceptions?

5. What does Schopenhauer suggest is a deception of nature that disillusions?

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