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

2. What is a most difficult thing to be understood by a man that is noble?
(a) Faithlessness.
(b) Vanity.
(c) Sacrifice.
(d) Servitude.

3. One who has suffered profoundly tends to maintain what characteristic?
(a) Haughtiness.
(b) Grief.
(c) Reverence.
(d) Fear.

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

5. Man's morality is different and therefore is likely to shine in what way?
(a) Dully.
(b) Intermittently.
(c) Brightly.
(d) In different colors.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What in man is developed late and most likely is never fully developed at all?

3. In return, what would that person crave?

4. Which emotion does Nietzsche refer to as being pathetic?

5. Which philosopher is referenced in this section in regard to creativity versus morality?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens once the friends arrive in the summer garden? How do they greet the author?

2. How does instinct change depending upon one's heritage and rank?

3. How does a philosopher marry new and old ideas and relate them to the now?

4. What are Nietzsche's views on experience and how certain types of experience cause one to seek answers?

5. How do the virtues of the modern man compare to those of old?

6. How does skepticism affect modern day Europe? What does the author think of skepticism in Germany?

7. How do spiritualism and cruelty combine in the modern man?

8. How does Nietzsche view faith versus knowledge? To what philosopher does Nietzsche refer?

9. What is the danger in allowing oneself to indulge in "Fatherlandishness?"

10. Once again, Nietzsche makes reference to a language barrier. What is the author's opinion?

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