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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what work does Spencer freely express his best ideas with suggestive generalization and political philosophy?
(a) The Evolution of Life
(b) The Evolution of Society
(c) The Evolution of Thought
(d) The Evolution of Mind

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

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

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

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

6. What does Nietzsche he write about in Thus Spake Zarathustra?
(a) Ra-Aman
(b) Buddha
(c) Zoroaster
(d) Confucius

7. What affects Schopenhauer as he travels through France and Austria?
(a) the clashes between the Catholic church and Protestantism
(b) the chaos, poverty, unrest and misery of the towns he visits
(c) the severe changes in the weather
(d) the philosophy of the post-revolutionary period

8. What does Nietzsche claim causes fulfillment of woman and narrowing of man?
(a) children
(b) marriage
(c) education
(d) charitable deeds

9. Without what does Kant say sensations cannot become perceptions?
(a) hot and cold
(b) time and energy
(c) action and reaction
(d) space and time

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

11. By Spencer's time, what is the third stage of philosophical thought?
(a) starting from new scientific advances and data
(b) disregarding of all philosophical theory and religion
(c) scientific explanations from observation, hypothesis and experiment
(d) a return to the purely metaphysical idea of truth and beauty

12. Who suggests that whenever philosophy grows in a country its moral health decays?
(a) Berkeley
(b) Rousseau
(c) Kant
(d) Voltaire

13. What does Kant set out to prove is innate and does not come from experience?
(a) moral sense
(b) directional sense
(c) common sense
(d) religious sense

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

15. Who is a contemporary of Kant's who writes so as to confound, confuse and attract disciples at the same time?
(a) Voltaire
(b) Russell
(c) Hegel
(d) Rousseau

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Schopenhauer develop his blunt manner, realistic mind, and knowledge of the world and of men?

2. What is Kant's critical analysis of the moral basis of religion?

3. What are the two contrary valuations of human behavior, according to Nietzsche?

4. What causes Bergson to become a famous popular philosopher?

5. As Russell visits China, he develops new perspectives and better understanding of a profounder culture to what effect?

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