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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. 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) Desire.
(b) Will.
(c) Language.
(d) Patriotism.

2. Many people believe in the existence of which of the following:
(a) Vanity.
(b) Mythology.
(c) Free will.
(d) Unfree will.

3. It is difficult for people to relate to that which is considered _____.
(a) Strange.
(b) Foreign.
(c) Evil.
(d) Incomprehensible.

4. Nietzsche states that physiologists should think twice before dismissing the cardinal instinct of _________ in man.
(a) Hatred.
(b) Self-preservation.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Spirituality.

5. According to this particular philosopher, man has developed the ability to create which of the following?
(a) A private universe.
(b) Synthetic judgments.
(c) Interim truth.
(d) A personal hell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main reason there are so many misunderstandings in philosophy?

2. Which branch of science is referred to as the "queen of the sciences?"

3. 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?

4. Nietzsche says that it is not necessary to get rid of the soul, however one must allow for its:

5. In many cases philosophers may prefer a handful of certainties to which of the following?

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