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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Francois Arouet when he starts using the pen name, Voltaire?
(a) studying at Oxford
(b) imprisoned in the Bastille
(c) recuperatiing from cholera
(d) sailing to the Americas

2. By the thirteenth century A. D., how does the Church unite the European continent?
(a) by millitancy and fear
(b) by persecution of heresy
(c) by common language and desires
(d) by common faith and supernatural sanctions

3. What purpose of Buddhism does Schopenhauer say is superior to Christianity?
(a) hours of meditation
(b) ease of joining the religion
(c) destruction of the will
(d) spiritual revelation

4. What student of Aristotle becomes a major historical figure?
(a) Alexander the Great
(b) Julius Caesar
(c) Philip of Macedon
(d) Ulysses

5. What does Voltaire's Essay on Morals become?
(a) the basis of modern historical science
(b) a book banned by every nations
(c) the last of his great works
(d) a template for how to do research

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Spinoza suggest the aim of Biblical language is meant to do?

2. What does the Roman empire eventually become?

3. Although science and philosophy exists in Greece before their times, who were the teachers who greatly advanced the fields?

4. What does Spinoza's Ethic do with Buddhism and Christianity, the philosophy of Machiavelli and Nietzsche, and the democracy of the Greeks?

5. What circumstance does Spinoza say keeps the racial existence of the Jews?

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