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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Some people still believe in immediate certainties and ______.
(a) Promise of the future.
(b) Distant uncertainties.
(c) Absolute knowledge.
(d) Immediate results.

2. What is no longer compatible to faith?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Perseverance.
(c) Fear.
(d) Hope.

3. The author states the belief that everything comes from which source?
(a) Higher being.
(b) Internal will.
(c) Outer space.
(d) Self.

4. In many cases philosophers may prefer a handful of certainties to which of the following?
(a) World full of promise.
(b) Cadre of assumptions.
(c) Bundles od speculation.
(d) Universe of possibilities.

5. Of the many types of passion held for God, who holds the most sincere faith?
(a) Peasant.
(b) Lord.
(c) Wife.
(d) Pastor.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states that while all philosophers love their truths, the new generation will not be seen as a group of:

2. Nietzsche states that philosophy concepts are not something that will autonomously _______.

3. Many of these scientists, according to Nietzsche, mistakenly believe that value is the opposite of which of the following?

4. Nietzsche states that physiologists should think twice before dismissing the cardinal instinct of _________ in man.

5. Nietzsche considers psychologists to have a large amount of which trait?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the author refer to man as being a contradictory creature?

2. What is the one thing that every human being craves?

3. What is Nietzsche's view on materialistic atomism? How is it viewed by the learned world?

4. What is the the "faculty of the suprasensible?" Who coined the term?

5. What is the main thought on the pursuit of one's desires?

6. Nietzsche talks about the communicative habits of "free spirits." Explain.

7. How does Nietzsche refer to Logicians?

8. Is there a difference between the moral and intellectual set of philosophies?

9. What is the author's opinion on reality versus self-denial?

10. Nietzsche breaches an age old question about God and the devil. What is it?

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