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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 3, Camus states Junger thought it was better to be criminal than what?
(a) Religious.
(b) Bourgeois.
(c) Poor.
(d) Powerful.

2. In the hour of Hitler's defeat, he believed himself betrayed by who?
(a) His People.
(b) His God.
(c) His Family.
(d) His Rivals.

3. According to Camus in Part 3, men kill each other because they desire what?
(a) Love.
(b) Power.
(c) Immortality.
(d) Mortality.

4. Who considers beauty more important than the world, according to Part 4?
(a) Hitler.
(b) Plato.
(c) Marx.
(d) Nietzsche.

5. In what writing does Camus think the "real greatness of Proust lies"?
(a) Communist Manifesto.
(b) Remembrance of Things Past.
(c) The Stranger.
(d) Time Regained.

6. In Part 3, men of action only believe in action when they are without what?
(a) Money.
(b) Friends.
(c) Faith.
(d) Power.

7. What does Camus say is the homage the "malignant recluse finally pays to the brotherhood of man" in Part 3?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Communism.
(c) Silence.
(d) Terror.

8. According to Camus in Part 5, rebellion has become the excuse for a new variety of what?
(a) Artists.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Tyrants.
(d) Priests.

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

10. In Part 3, all modern revolutions end in a reinforcement of the power of what?
(a) The Nation.
(b) The People.
(c) God.
(d) The State.

11. Camus says in Part 3 that every revolutionary ends by becoming one of what two things?
(a) Leader or follower.
(b) Politician or writer.
(c) Oppressor or heretic.
(d) Murderer or saint.

12. What era followed the metaphysical and theological eras?
(a) Marxist.
(b) Nihilist.
(c) Positivist.
(d) Communist.

13. According to Part 3, Russian Communism openly aspires to what?
(a) National rule.
(b) World empire.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Nothing.

14. According to revolutionary interpreters of Hegel, what will no longer exist in reconciled society?
(a) Art.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Government.
(d) Logic.

15. According to Camus in Part 4, what does the American novel reject?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Analysis.
(c) Rebellion.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Camus in Part 3, what did Germany submit to when deprived of Goethe's morality?

2. Fascism is an act of what in Part 3?

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

4. According to Part 3, prophecy functions on what type of basis?

5. Camus believes the longing for what "coincides with the acceptance of iniquity"?

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