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

2. Nietzsche says that when he is left alone, he is not entirely:
(a) Devastated.
(b) Lonely.
(c) Sad.
(d) Free.

3. One's virtues most likely are not the same as whose?
(a) Priest.
(b) Grandfather.
(c) Father.
(d) Mother.

4. Nietzsche believes that an entity was created simply to encourage man to return to the workday. What is that entity?
(a) Restlessness.
(b) Sabbath.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Leisure.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author laments that the theories of his time have come to reach what point in their lives?

2. What is the emotion Nietzsche feels while waiting for his guest(s) to arrive?

3. Virtues most likely relate directly to what type of inclinations?

4. Industrious cultures find it difficult to partake in what pastime?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why must a psychologist take care when investigating various people?

2. How does a person see vanity? Who places the value on man?

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

4. What is the paradox in loving one's enemies as it is suggested in various religions?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the mood in the beginning of the poem? What is the author doing?

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