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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Camus in Part 3, Hilter was what in its "purest form"?
(a) Power.
(b) Politics.
(c) History.
(d) Hatred.

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

3. According to Camus in Part 3, what did Germany submit to when deprived of Goethe's morality?
(a) Ethics of the gang.
(b) Religion of the gang.
(c) Money from the gang.
(d) Politics of the rebels.

4. Who do the first mythologies describe as an "eternal martyr"?
(a) Prometheus.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Eschylus.
(d) Satan.

5. According to Part 3, The Social Contract is an inquiry into the legitimacy of what?
(a) Power.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Religion.
(d) Justice.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Camus in Part 4, the world of Proust is nothing but what?

2. What is the only evidence given to Camus within the terms of the absurdist experience?

3. What did Nietzsche diagnose in himself?

4. Who, according to Part 3, pushed nihilism to the "farthest coherent point"?

5. For Camus in Part 2, what is the history of rebellion inseparable from?

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