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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: The Free Spirit - Chapters 24-35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Nietzsche divides the main approaches to thought into two groups. What are they?
(a) Backward and forward.
(b) Inward and outward.
(c) Inferior and superior.
(d) Exoteric and esoteric.

2. People tend to base their beliefs on which of the following?
(a) Instinct.
(b) What parents teach.
(c) What they see.
(d) What is taught in church.

3. What attempts to impose morality upon one's character?
(a) Self-will.
(b) Pride.
(c) Fear.
(d) Prejudice.

4. Which item is reserved only for a few because it is the privilege of the strong and unattainable for the weak?
(a) Self-will.
(b) Independence.
(c) Success.
(d) Self-sufficiency.

5. What is the one thing that will never cease being awkward long enough for people to understand that there are no opposites, only subtleties of gradation?
(a) Will.
(b) Language.
(c) Desire.
(d) Patriotism.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the text, which refutable theory has been challenged a hundred times?

2. The _______ way, which Nietzsche asserts was nobler, consisted in resisting what is self-evident.

3. Self-contradiction is formed through the perversion of which of the following:

4. A man may consider himself to be above other men but succeeds only in becoming more ordinary if he gives up all but which of the following?

5. Despite the commitment to his work, the philosopher knows deep down that there is one thing that will never be found. What is it?

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