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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a word that means something that comes in between?
(a) Interlude.
(b) Interior.
(c) Typology.
(d) Elipsis.

2. Nietzsche states that ____________ is a well refuted theory and almost no one in the learned world attaches significance to it.
(a) Transmigration.
(b) Physical transformation.
(c) Materialistic atomism.
(d) Spiritual hierarchy.

3. Despite public opinion, Nietzsche has no objections about one of the following.
(a) Children.
(b) Falsehoods.
(c) Piety.
(d) Morality.

4. Nietzsche believes that if the explanation were possible then which of the following could be traced back to it?
(a) Origin of man.
(b) Organic functions.
(c) Invention of philosophy.
(d) Birth of religion.

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

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

7. Which faith is most closely related to sacrifice according to Nietzsche?
(a) Paganism.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Judaism.

8. Nietzsche states that one must determine the value of:
(a) Prejudice.
(b) Anger.
(c) Truth.
(d) Change.

9. Nietzsche discusses how to value oneself along with valuing which of the following:
(a) Parents.
(b) Society.
(c) God.
(d) Children.

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

11. A false judgment is not necessarily ______ to a person's mind.
(a) False.
(b) Offensive.
(c) Objectionable.
(d) Obvious.

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

13. Schelling referred to intellectual intuition as being a "faculty of the _________."
(a) Incomprehensible.
(b) Imbecile.
(c) Suprasensible.
(d) Active mind.

14. Nietzsche states that philosophy concepts are not something that will autonomously _______.
(a) Appear.
(b) Destruct.
(c) Evolve.
(d) Blossom.

15. The author states that while all philosophers love their truths, the new generation will not be seen as a group of:
(a) Dogmatists.
(b) Idealists.
(c) Realists.
(d) Religious fanatics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which sector of the population cannot distinguish between finding and creating these objects?

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

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

4. Self-contradiction also involves which of the following emotions?

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

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