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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. In Part 2, Camus states that the great problem of modern times is the discovery that rescuing man from destiny delivers him to what?
(a) Murder.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Chance.
(d) Rebellion.

2. In the Introduction, what does Camus say criminals use as an alibi?
(a) Premeditation.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Logic.
(d) Passion.

3. The ancients, according to Part 2, believed rebelling against nature was the same as rebelling against what?
(a) God.
(b) Oneself.
(c) Satan.
(d) Government.

4. In Part 2's introduction, the most elementary form of rebellion expresses an aspiration to what?
(a) Murder.
(b) Order.
(c) Values.
(d) Power.

5. What has to be alive in order to say life is absurd, according to the introduction?
(a) Soul.
(b) Heart.
(c) Conscience.
(d) Brain.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Part 2's introduction, the "movement by which man protests against his condition and against the whole of creation" is called what?

2. What problem does Nietzsche's philosophy revolve around?

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

4. With Nietzsche in Part 2, what is no longer a revenge?

5. In the introduction, rebellion is born of the spectacle of what?

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