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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is, according to Part 2, in itself a sign of decadence?
(a) Murder.
(b) Nihilism.
(c) Atheism.
(d) Moral conduct.
2. According to Camus in Part 2, what is only useful for "adventures of the imagination"?
(a) Romanticism.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Nihilism.
(d) Christianity.
3. What is the only evidence given to Camus within the terms of the absurdist experience?
(a) Rebellion.
(b) Power.
(c) Love.
(d) Revolution.
4. Who wrote The Possessed?
(a) Bukanin.
(b) Camus.
(c) Sade.
(d) Dostoyevsky.
5. In the introduction, rebellion is born of the spectacle of what?
(a) Murder.
(b) Irrationality.
(c) Love.
(d) Revolution.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Camus' introduction, what does he say "remains an exception"?
2. According to Part 2, what is a "degenerate form of Christianity"?
3. In Part 3, what divides the sovereign?
4. According to Nietzsche in Part 2, freedom of the mind is not a comfort but a what?
5. What did Nietzsche practice instead of methodical doubt?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Camus identify in Part 3 as the conclusions of individualism in revolt?
2. In Part 5, what does Camus say irrational and rational crime equally betray?
3. Why is it important to Camus to know whether or not people have a right to murder, as outlined in the Introduction?
4. According to Camus in Part 4, what is artistic creation?
5. According to Camus in Part 3, what coincides with the acceptance of iniquity?
6. Why does Camus believe art should provide a final perspective on rebellion's content?
7. According to Camus in Part 3, how did the nihilism of the 1860s begin?
8. What does Camus say in Part 5 is the consequence of rebellion?
9. According to Camus in Part Three, how did the nihilists give their successors a model?
10. Why does Camus say the Fascist revolutions of the twentieth century do not deserve the title of a revolution?
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