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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Abstracts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Nietzsche in Part 2, freedom of the mind is not a comfort but a what?
(a) Failure.
(b) Achievement.
(c) Belief.
(d) Expectation.

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

3. If rebellion is cut off from its origins, what does is oscillate between according to Camus in Part 5?
(a) Suicide and murder.
(b) Right and wrong.
(c) Crime and punishment.
(d) Sacrifice and murder.

4. According to Part 3, what is limited in scope by its nature?
(a) Religion.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Crime.
(d) Revolution.

5. Camus believes the longing for what "coincides with the acceptance of iniquity"?
(a) Love and money.
(b) Power and politics.
(c) Murder and suicide.
(d) Rest and peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the introduction, rebellion is born of the spectacle of what?

2. What does Marx believe people have a nostalgia for, according to Part 4?

3. Nietzscheism as defined by Camus in Part 2 is the theory of the individual's will to what?

4. According to Camus, suffering at times turns away from too painful expressions of what?

5. What is, according to Part 2, in itself a sign of decadence?

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