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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 3, Bakunin was the only one of his contemporaries to declare war on what?
(a) Politics.
(b) Religion.
(c) Science.
(d) Literature.

2. Who wrote The Possessed?
(a) Camus.
(b) Dostoyevsky.
(c) Sade.
(d) Bukanin.

3. What becomes prophetic with Nietzsche in Part 2?
(a) Atheism.
(b) Marxism.
(c) Absurdism.
(d) Nihilism.

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

5. In Part 3, what must an individual destroy to confirm his own existence?
(a) Reason.
(b) Himself.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is a theoretician of Russian nihilism?

2. According to Hezen in Part 3, "The annihilation of the past is the protection of" what?

3. According to Part 4, Nietzsche said no artist tolerates what?

4. What did Nietzsche diagnose in himself?

5. In what writing does Camus think the "real greatness of Proust lies"?

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