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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Many philosophers stop their careers, at least temporarily, in order to purse what kind of education?
(a) Secular.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Specialized.
(d) Religious.

2. Which emotion does Nietzsche refer to as being pathetic?
(a) Frustration.
(b) Pity.
(c) Piety.
(d) Desperateness.

3. Nietzsche points to the various German factions, including the Christian romantic movement and others including which of the following?
(a) Anti-Polish.
(b) Anti-American.
(c) Anti-French .
(d) Anti-Jewish.

4. In the past men have often treated women like what kind of rare creature?
(a) Birds.
(b) Nymphs.
(c) Fairies.
(d) Dragons.

5. What is the name of the book's translator?
(a) Claus.
(b) Christopher.
(c) Kuntz.
(d) Kaufmann.

6. Regardless of a man's nature, it is impossible to erase from his soul the influence of what?
(a) Parents.
(b) Culture.
(c) Religion.
(d) Ancestors.

7. In return, what would that person crave?
(a) Objectivity.
(b) Abstract thought.
(c) Subjectivity.
(d) Limitlessness.

8. What type of person does the author refer to as being moralistic?
(a) Student.
(b) Child.
(c) Pedant.
(d) Father.

9. The man who has suffered profoundly also believes that through suffering, one is able to gain ______.
(a) Karma.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Favor.
(d) Holiness.

10. Man was not used to accepting that there was _____ placed on him by himself, rather it was placed upon him by another.
(a) Pride.
(b) Validity.
(c) Holiness.
(d) Value.

11. Another example of tyranny can be seen through personal experiences under what umbrella?
(a) Self-preservation.
(b) Truth.
(c) God.
(d) Will.

12. In Nietzsche's mind, whose music heralded the end of centuries-old European taste?
(a) Beethoven.
(b) Tchaikovsky.
(c) Bach.
(d) Mozart.

13. The German spirit was created despite the ______ of music and philosophy.
(a) Development.
(b) Invention.
(c) Romanticism.
(d) Declaration.

14. One should be concerned about the dangerous aspects of a man who claims not to be which of the following?
(a) Truthful.
(b) Skeptic.
(c) Honorable.
(d) Convinced.

15. The new age throughout Europe has spawned a new strain of which school of thought?
(a) Pure faith.
(b) Skepticism.
(c) Consideration.
(d) Religious freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first composer to be mentioned in this chapter?

2. _________ are becoming more similar to one another as they become more detached from the origins of race and class.

3. The author believes that the democratization of Europe is an involuntary arrangement for the cultivation of _________.

4. What was the name of the god praised by Nietzsche?

5. According to the author, the German soul was once considered to be:

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