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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (philosopher)
Contributed by: Payne
  • 1. When did Friedrich Nietzsche die?
A) 1880
B) 1900
C) 1910
D) 1890
  • 2. Where did Friedrich Nietzsche die?
A) Berlin, Germany
B) Vienna, Austria
C) Weimar, Germany
D) Paris, France
  • 3. What was Friedrich Nietzsche's occupation?
A) Philosopher
B) Painter
C) Engineer
D) Musician
  • 4. In what year was Friedrich Nietzsche born?
A) 1844
B) 1830
C) 1872
D) 1856
  • 5. What is the title of one of Nietzsche's famous works?
A) Moby Dick
B) War and Peace
C) Thus Spoke Zarathustra
D) Crime and Punishment
  • 6. Which famous philosopher greatly influenced Nietzsche's ideas?
A) John Locke
B) Immanuel Kant
C) Arthur Schopenhauer
D) Machiavelli
  • 7. Who was Nietzsche's sister and executor of his estate?
A) Marie Curie
B) Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche
C) Alice Heine
D) Sophie Freud
  • 8. What philosophical concept did Nietzsche famously declare 'God is dead, and we have killed him'?
A) Determinism
B) Existentialism
C) Rationalism
D) Nihilism
  • 9. What debilitating health condition did Nietzsche suffer from in his later years?
A) Alzheimer's
B) Parkinson's
C) Tuberculosis
D) Syphilis
  • 10. What was the name of Nietzsche's final published work?
A) Ecce Homo
B) The Birth of Tragedy
C) Beyond Good and Evil
D) Thus Spoke Zarathustra
  • 11. What musical composer did Nietzsche admire and write about in 'The Case of Wagner'?
A) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
B) Richard Wagner
C) Ludwig van Beethoven
D) Johann Sebastian Bach
  • 12. Which university did Nietzsche briefly attend before joining the Prussian army?
A) Harvard University
B) Sorbonne University
C) University of Bonn
D) University of Oxford
  • 13. What posthumously published work by Nietzsche explores his thoughts on art, aesthetics, and reality?
A) Human, All Too Human
B) Beyond Good and Evil
C) The Will to Power
D) Thus Spoke Zarathustra
  • 14. What was the title of Nietzsche's first major work that criticized traditional Western philosophy and culture?
A) Critique of Pure Reason
B) Second Sex
C) Being and Time
D) The Birth of Tragedy
  • 15. What was the name of Nietzsche's influential aphoristic work that critiques conventional morality and religion?
A) Republic
B) Ethics
C) The Critique of Pure Reason
D) Beyond Good and Evil
  • 16. In what year did Nietzsche's health deteriorate to the point that he became incapacitated?
A) 1875
B) 1905
C) 1889
D) 1897
  • 17. Which famous philosopher did Nietzsche consider a moral coward and the 'calamity of the human race'?
A) Socrates
B) Plato
C) Aristotle
D) Epicurus
  • 18. What term did Nietzsche use to describe the inner drive for self-preservation and advancement that underlies human behavior?
A) Epicurean Happiness
B) Eternal Recurrence
C) Will to Power
D) Overman
  • 19. How old was Nietzsche when he passed away?
A) 50
B) 55
C) 45
D) 60
  • 20. What nationality was Nietzsche?
A) Italian
B) German
C) French
D) Russian
  • 21. Nietzsche's philosophy is often associated with which movement?
A) Surrealism
B) Renaissance
C) Baroque
D) Existentialism
  • 22. What year was Nietzsche's first book, 'The Birth of Tragedy', published?
A) 1880
B) 1872
C) 1865
D) 1895
  • 23. Which famous poet wrote an elegy in honor of Nietzsche?
A) Rainer Maria Rilke
B) Friedrich Schiller
C) Franz Kafka
D) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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