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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Introduction and Sections 1, 2 and 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Camus in Part 2, what is only useful for "adventures of the imagination"?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Romanticism.
(c) Rebellion.
(d) Nihilism.

2. By what concept is metaphysical rebellion motivated by?
(a) Power.
(b) Absolute murder.
(c) Universal truth.
(d) Complete unity.

3. In the introduction, rebellion is born of the spectacle of what?
(a) Murder.
(b) Irrationality.
(c) Revolution.
(d) Love.

4. According to Part 2's introduction, the "movement by which man protests against his condition and against the whole of creation" is called what?
(a) Revolution.
(b) Metaphysical rebellion.
(c) Nihilism.
(d) Historical rebellion.

5. The ancients, according to Part 2, believed rebelling against nature was the same as rebelling against what?
(a) Oneself.
(b) Satan.
(c) God.
(d) Government.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the ancients referenced in Part 2, what counterbalances negation?

2. Who wrote Society of the Friends of Crime?

3. According to Camus, the rebel does what more than he denies?

4. According to Camus, we are living in an era of what and perfect crime?

5. What belief system accepts suicide as legitimate?

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