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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Sections 4, 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two forms of rebellion are being considered in the book?
(a) Power and pain.
(b) Metaphyiscal and historical.
(c) Murder and suicide.
(d) Love and hate.

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

3. What belief system accepts suicide as legitimate?
(a) Dandyism.
(b) Romanticism.
(c) Absolute nihilism.
(d) Marxism.

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

5. According to Camus, we are living in an era of what and perfect crime?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Premeditation.
(c) Passion.
(d) Logic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Society of the Friends of Crime?

2. In Part 2, who wanted to "eradicate God from man's mind"?

3. According to Camus in Part 2, what "never has the patience to await complete control of the world?"

4. According to Camus in Part 2, a metaphysical rebel is inevitably what?

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

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