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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote The Possessed?
(a) Dostoyevsky.
(b) Camus.
(c) Bukanin.
(d) Sade.

2. Human rebellion ends in what, according to Part 2's introduction?
(a) Metaphysical revolution.
(b) Nihilism.
(c) Historical rebellion.
(d) Hitlerism.

3. According to revolution in Part 3, man is nothing if he does not obtain what?
(a) Money.
(b) Unanimous approval.
(c) Power.
(d) Crime.

4. Nietzsche cannot separate what from lucidity?
(a) Methodical doubt.
(b) Metaphysical rebellion.
(c) Real morality.
(d) Moral conduct.

5. Who is a theoretician of Russian nihilism?
(a) Saint-Just.
(b) Sade.
(c) Pisarev.
(d) Nietzsche.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 3, who does Camus say is one of the "most remarkable and influential minds of the 1830s and 40s"?

2. Who, according to Camus in Part 2, committed the first act of rebellion?

3. According to Part 3, a revolution based on what kills God in His representative on Earth?

4. What does Camus think the methods of thought that claim to lead the world into revolution have become in Part 3?

5. In the Introduction, what does Camus say criminals use as an alibi?

(see the answer key)

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