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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What tends to lead people to search for answers to the highest questions?

3. Which of the ancient philosophical and theological issues is addressed by Nietzsche?

4. Another example of tyranny can be seen through personal experiences under what umbrella?

5. Who is Nietzsche waiting for in the poem?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is leisure an issue for some cultures? How has leisure been forced upon society?

2. Nietzsche asks if there is a name for those who are no longer friends. What has changed about the friendships?

3. What is the author's opinion on morality as it relates to nature?

4. The book's translator shares a story about the first known copy of "Aftersong." Where was it? How was it different than the later versions?

5. How do the modern day thoughts on morality relate to the modern day views on science of morals?

6. How do spiritualism and cruelty combine in the modern man?

7. The author comments upon tempo and how it can be improperly translated. What is the danger in it?

8. What are the dangers in the potential development of a budding philosopher?

9. What is the danger in allowing oneself to indulge in "Fatherlandishness?"

10. Nietzsche is very vocal about his opinions of the church. What good does the author see in the organization?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Women are easily misled by their own beliefs and will not hear otherwise. Is this thought the reason that Nietzsche feels a woman would not make a good philosopher? Research female philosophers from the past century. Choose at least three and compare their philosophies with those belonging to Nietzsche's work.

Essay Topic 2

Man will routinely make harsh moral judgments against those he loves, as well as neighbors, acquaintances and society as a whole. Write a 1000 word essay on this topic. What gives one the right to make harsh moral judgments? Have you ever done it? Explain. Why is no one immune to the judgments, including loved ones? Why do people tend to be hardest on those close to them? Give examples. How might embracing the will to truth help to eliminate or quell this behavior?

Essay Topic 3

Man is a strange and contradictory creature. One professes to believe in one thing but only as it applies to other people. When one encounters a person who has the same beliefs and expectations, one is apt to despise the other person, not recognizing in himself those very qualities he despises. Why is man a contradictory creature? Do you think it is hypocritical to demand a behavior of someone but not of yourself? How does this relate to the "do as I say, not as I do" mentality many people have with their subordinates or children? Is this a valid behavior? Is it helpful or harmful? What type of characteristics might you see in another person that would too closely mirror your own? Would it help you to change your behavior?

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