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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Friedrich Nietzsche.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way is Bacon's reconstruction thought superior to that of Aristotle?
(a) more flexible for the people
(b) less idealistic and more severe
(c) less detailed, evolving slowly
(d) more practical than theoretical

2. What does Bacon call for elimination in his philosophy?
(a) several errors he calls idols
(b) a private banking system
(c) the model of the philosopher king
(d) public education

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

4. What does Nietzsche claim the English Darwinians, French positivists and German socialists reject ?
(a) Christian theology but retain its morality
(b) all who have other opinions
(c) any kind of taught morality
(d) reliance on science for answers

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kant classify as a result of an oligarchic constitution wherein the spoils of war go to a greedy few?

2. Who is a contemporary of Kant's who writes so as to confound, confuse and attract disciples at the same time?

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

4. What is the distinction of his book, The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music?

5. How is Nietzsche found after he suffers a fit of apoplexy?

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