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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What group of people recognizes only what is common?
(a) Cynics.
(b) Idealists.
(c) Pessimists.
(d) Realists.

2. Every person, regardless of status or vocation, strives to seek which of the following:
(a) Acceptance.
(b) Fulfillment.
(c) Solitude.
(d) Love.

3. Man will go to great lengths to avoid uncovering:
(a) Will.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Religion.
(d) Truth.

4. According to the text, which refutable theory has been challenged a hundred times?
(a) Free will.
(b) Chaos.
(c) Fate.
(d) Divine intervention.

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

6. The authors believe that which group is not honest enough?
(a) Clergymen.
(b) Philosophers.
(c) Upper class.
(d) Politicians.

7. It is a part of human nature for one to rearrange his own memory in order to avoid ____.
(a) Shame.
(b) Ridicule.
(c) Reproach.
(d) Loneliness.

8. Nietzsche says that it is not necessary to get rid of the soul, however one must allow for its:
(a) Rebellion.
(b) Revisions.
(c) Separation.
(d) Rebirth.

9. Nietzsche believes that we are, at our base selves, commanding and obeying __________.
(a) Creatures.
(b) Guinea pigs.
(c) Minions.
(d) Sheep.

10. The _______ way, which Nietzsche asserts was nobler, consisted in resisting what is self-evident.
(a) Platonic.
(b) Romantic.
(c) Abstract.
(d) Concrete.

11. 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) Desire.
(c) Patriotism.
(d) Language.

12. In chapter one, Nietzsche introduces the concept of "will to _____."
(a) Exist.
(b) Lie.
(c) Die.
(d) Truth.

13. People often cannot recognize philosophies of other:
(a) Races.
(b) Religions.
(c) Cultures.
(d) Political affiliations.

14. Which sector of the population cannot distinguish between finding and creating these objects?
(a) Philosophers.
(b) Metaphysicists.
(c) Priests.
(d) Theologians.

15. A person's responsibility extends into many areas except for which one?
(a) Politics.
(b) Society.
(c) Heritage.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not tied to religious neurosis:

2. Philosophy is not so much an actual _______, rather it is man's recognition of what is already known.

3. Many people believe in the existence of which of the following:

4. Nietzsche believes that man tends to view himself in what kind of light?

5. Nietzsche states that one must determine the value of:

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