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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What writer does Camus say the French Revolution "gave birth" to?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Sade.
(c) Marx.
(d) Plato.

2. What type of temple does Camus say nihilism builds in Part 3?
(a) Caesar.
(b) Hitler.
(c) Sade.
(d) Marx.

3. Hitler invented the perpetual motion of what, according to Part 3?
(a) Conquest.
(b) Murder.
(c) Power.
(d) Rebellion.

4. What is, according to Part 2, in itself a sign of decadence?
(a) Murder.
(b) Nihilism.
(c) Atheism.
(d) Moral conduct.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 5, Camus states that the extreme of nihilism is when blind and savage murder becomes what?

2. According to Part 4, what is artistic creation a rejection of?

3. What does Camus say people become intimates of at the "climax of contemporary tragedy"?

4. According to Part 3, what are the two contemporary forms of nihilism?

5. According to Part 4, what is the most ambitious of the arts?

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