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

2. The differences between moral and immoral are determined by what?

3. Socrates was known to mock which group of people?

4. One's virtues most likely are not the same as whose?

5. One who has suffered profoundly tends to maintain what characteristic?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. The author comments upon tempo and how it can be improperly translated. What is the danger in it?

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

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

8. What is Nietzsche's lament regarding the German soul?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Nietzsche considers Kant to be one of the most influential philosophers of his time. Write a 750 word biography on Kant, his philosophies, impact on the field, and influence on Nietzsche.

Essay Topic 2

The author believes that a woman may appear to be peaceable, as the man wishes, but like a cat, she has trained herself to appear that way. What is your opinion of that statement? Do you think Nietzsche truly believes that women are not peaceable creatures? If women are not peaceable creatures, where does the opposite of that come from? Is it a learned behavior or an innate one? Does Nietzsche mean to say that it is the nature of the woman to behave that way or is it all a lie?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Nietzsche to Socrates and Plato. How were there views different? Were any the same? Explain. How might Socrates' views have changed if he had lived in Nietzsche's time?

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