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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the book's translator?

3. Nietzsche points to the various German factions, including the Christian romantic movement and others including which of the following?

4. In Nietzsche's eyes, ______ does not always equal superiority.

5. What body of water is mentioned in the poem?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What would a man's life be like if he does not possess the will to truth?

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

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

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

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

7. What is the author's opinion on morality as it relates to nature?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Women are easily misled by their own beliefs and will not hear otherwise. Is this thought the reason that Nietzsche feels a woman would not make a good philosopher? Research female philosophers from the past century. Choose at least three and compare their philosophies with those belonging to Nietzsche's work.

Essay Topic 2

One may not like the man to whom he is not equal. Why is that? What about another person who is not your equal cause dislike? Is this dislike more intense if the person is above you? Or is the dislike worse if the person is inferior to you? Explain. Write an essay about how this theory may apply in your life.

Essay Topic 3

Whosoever fights monsters should be sure, that in fighting he himself does not become a monster. "And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you." This is a common thought among people who investigate heinous crimes. Examine why and how it is possible that by studying monsters one can become a monster. Reference a story like Jekyll and Hyde to prove your point.

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