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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the one thing that will allow man to gain strength?
(a) Faith.
(b) Experience.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Study.

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

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

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

5. Many philosophers stop their careers, at least temporarily, in order to purse what kind of education?
(a) Religious.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Secular.
(d) Specialized.

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

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

8. The ___________ movement in Europe accompanies a great tremendous physiological process.
(a) Tyrannical.
(b) Philosophical.
(c) Religious.
(d) Democratic.

9. What is the name of the book's translator?
(a) Claus.
(b) Kuntz.
(c) Christopher.
(d) Kaufmann.

10. Regardless of a man's nature, it is impossible to erase from his soul the influence of what?
(a) Culture.
(b) Religion.
(c) Parents.
(d) Ancestors.

11. What is another way to describe how Nietzsche uses the term "Fatherlandishness?"
(a) Patriotism.
(b) Blind faith.
(c) Expatriatism.
(d) Disdain.

12. Every man has been enhanced through what type of society?
(a) Free-willed.
(b) Democratic.
(c) Aristocratic.
(d) Tyrannical.

13. Nietzsche fears if a philosopher does this, he will likely lose:
(a) Drive.
(b) Sound judgment.
(c) Hope.
(d) Interest.

14. The man who practices moral revenge is most likely limited in what area?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) Will.
(c) Self-control.
(d) Truth.

15. Nietzsche condemns the woman who seeks to enlighten men and to become what?
(a) Equal.
(b) Forthright.
(c) Wise.
(d) Self-reliant.

Short Answer Questions

1. One must learn to despise his enemies if he is going to be able to express what?

2. The man who has suffered profoundly also believes that through suffering, one is able to gain ______.

3. Nietzsche frequently blames misunderstandings upon the difference in the _____ of the language.

4. What is a most difficult thing to be understood by a man that is noble?

5. The new age throughout Europe has spawned a new strain of which school of thought?

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