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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: The Free Spirit - Chapters 36-44.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There may be good things that cause shame if they intimate that one is prone to:
(a) Weakness.
(b) Modesty.
(c) Evil.
(d) Falseness.

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

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

4. Which of the following does Nietzsche refer to as being without mercy or justice?
(a) Soul.
(b) God.
(c) People.
(d) Nature.

5. A certain group of people believes that a thought comes when it wants to come, not when a/an:
(a) Soul speaks.
(b) Trigger is present.
(c) Tide rises.
(d) Individual wishes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group of people tends to be the least communicative?

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

3. Who will serve as the only judge to the tests we put ourselves through?

4. Nietzsche insists that a refutable theory is one that has not lost its:

5. One of the topics addressed in this section is Nietzsche's opinion on conscious versus:

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