Response should include a thesis: that is, a one-sentence statement of what your answer to the question will be. You should also include at least two direct quotations from the text, and you should make sure to explain each in your own words. Make sure to answer the question directly and avoiding any summarizing that isn’t directly related to the question.

Nietzsche argues in the Use and Abuse of History for Life that there are three kinds of historian: the monumental, the antiquarian, and the critical. Choose one of these historians and explain how they use and abuse life, or how this approach has both an advantage and a disadvantage for those living in the present. Make sure to give at least one example.