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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Camus' introduction, one purpose is to find out if what can avoid committing murder?
(a) Logic.
(b) Innocence.
(c) Love.
(d) Philosophy.

2. According to Part 3, what is the "only logical consequence of metaphysical rebellion"?
(a) Revolution.
(b) Murder.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Nihilism.

3. According to Part 3, what naturally establishes the Republic of law and order?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Religion of power.
(c) Nihilism.
(d) Religion of reason.

4. In Part 3, what is a "long and painful struggle in the darkness"?
(a) Love.
(b) Religion.
(c) Politics.
(d) Rebellion.

5. According to Part 3, Saint-Just is a contemporary of whom?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Hitler.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Sade.

6. What is the guiding principle of this person's reasoning?
(a) Double rebellion.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Revolution.
(d) Atheism.

7. According to Part 3, nihilists believed in nothing but what?
(a) Reality and self-interest.
(b) Reason and reality.
(c) Reason and self-interest.
(d) Self-interest and religion.

8. In Part 2, Camus explains Nietzsche recognized himself as the "most acute manifestation" of what?
(a) Christianity's values.
(b) Nihilism's conscience.
(c) Atheism's beliefs.
(d) Rebellion's reasoning.

9. What did Nietzsche practice instead of methodical doubt?
(a) Historical rebellion.
(b) Metaphysical rebellion.
(c) Methodical crime.
(d) Methodical negation.

10. According to Part 1, remaining silent gives the appearance that one has no what?
(a) Opinions.
(b) Tongue.
(c) Feelings.
(d) Thoughts.

11. Who, according to Camus in Part 2, committed the first act of rebellion?
(a) Abel.
(b) Cain.
(c) God.
(d) Satan.

12. What did Nietzsche diagnose in himself?
(a) The inability to write.
(b) The inability to believe.
(c) The inability to maintain power.
(d) The inability to be persuasive.

13. Nietzscheism as defined by Camus in Part 2 is the theory of the individual's will to what?
(a) Power.
(b) Money.
(c) Religion.
(d) Love.

14. In Part 2's introduction, the most elementary form of rebellion expresses an aspiration to what?
(a) Power.
(b) Values.
(c) Murder.
(d) Order.

15. Camus says in Part 2 that who's negation is the most extreme?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Prometheus.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Sade.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Part 2, what is a "degenerate form of Christianity"?

2. The ancients, according to Part 2, believed rebelling against nature was the same as rebelling against what?

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

4. According to Part 3, what are a majority of revolutions shaped by?

5. In the introduction, what is it always possible to do?

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