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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the god praised by Nietzsche?
(a) Dionysus.
(b) Athena.
(c) Bacchus.
(d) Colossus.

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

3. Nietzsche refers to the "new European" as being what?
(a) Hybrid.
(b) Refreshing.
(c) Advanced.
(d) Disappointment.

4. Philosophers must be careful and take caution against what emotion?
(a) Love.
(b) Fear.
(c) Gratitude.
(d) Respect.

5. Through a monstrous mix of races, the German people have become all but which one of the following?
(a) Incalculable.
(b) Confused.
(c) Frightening.
(d) Contradictory.

6. How does the author view the modern day approach to the science of morals?
(a) Swift.
(b) Intellectualized.
(c) Absent.
(d) Butterfingered.

7. What tends to lead people to search for answers to the highest questions?
(a) Hope.
(b) Experience.
(c) Death.
(d) Rebirth.

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

9. Some cultures attempt to mediate between which two groups?
(a) Slave and master.
(b) Moral and immoral.
(c) Father and son.
(d) Educated and uneducated.

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

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

12. What is the emotion Nietzsche feels while waiting for his guest(s) to arrive?
(a) Calm.
(b) Joy.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Worry.

13. Who is the first composer to be mentioned in this chapter?
(a) Mozart.
(b) Schumann.
(c) Wagner.
(d) Bach.

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

15. This part of society can be directly attributed to what element?
(a) Evil.
(b) Scrutiny.
(c) Passion.
(d) Will.

Short Answer Questions

1. Senses and ______ are two ways in which a philosopher experiences many things.

2. It is common for friendships to change if those friendships have been made when?

3. What is the name of the theory that says men should overcome laughter?

4. Regardless of a man's nature, it is impossible to erase from his soul the influence of what?

5. The German spirit was created despite the ______ of music and philosophy.

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