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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. What is a part of all types of society, despite their advancement or lack thereof?
(a) Murder.
(b) Faith.
(c) Exploitation.
(d) Crime.

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

3. Industrious cultures find it difficult to partake in what pastime?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Sports.
(c) Thought.
(d) Leisure.

4. What in man is developed late and most likely is never fully developed at all?
(a) Brain.
(b) Heart.
(c) Senses.
(d) Soul.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nietzsche refer to the time between dusk and dawn?

2. Who puts himself into a dangerous situation when studying both ordinary and extraordinary people?

3. Man's morality is different and therefore is likely to shine in what way?

4. Which country has the least amount of strength of will?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Nietzsche explain the master morality and the slave morality?

3. Why is leisure an issue for some cultures? How has leisure been forced upon society?

4. Nietzsche asks if there is a name for those who are no longer friends. What has changed about the friendships?

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

6. What are the dangers in the potential development of a budding philosopher?

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

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

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

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

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