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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was one of the first groups of Russian revolutionaries?
(a) The Decemberists.
(b) The Rebels.
(c) The Greeks.
(d) The Nazis.

2. What is "more useful than Shakespeare" to Pisarev, according to Part 4?
(a) A hat.
(b) A shirt.
(c) A pair of pants.
(d) A pair of shoes.

3. In Part 2, Camus explains Nietzsche recognized himself as the "most acute manifestation" of what?
(a) Atheism's beliefs.
(b) Nihilism's conscience.
(c) Christianity's values.
(d) Rebellion's reasoning.

4. According to Part 4, what is the most ambitious of the arts?
(a) Writing.
(b) Painting.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Singing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Nietzscheism as defined by Camus in Part 2 is the theory of the individual's will to what?

2. Violence is directed at one and all in the service of what?

3. Who is a theoretician of Russian nihilism?

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

5. According to Part 3, if everything is logical then everything is what?

(see the answer key)

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