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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What had Kant determined to be a Thing-in-Itself that can be conceived in thought but not experienced?
(a) ultimate reality
(b) history
(c) eventuality
(d) conceptuality

4. What is a special element of soul in the human being according to Aristotle?
(a) a power to dream
(b) a power of reason and thought
(c) a power of understanding metaphysics
(d) a power to dominate

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the foundation of Plato's Republic?

2. What does Bacon call for elimination in his philosophy?

3. Why does Spinoza say an allegorical interpretation of the Bible allows it to be?

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

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

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