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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Part 3, nihilists believed in nothing but what?
(a) Reason and reality.
(b) Reality and self-interest.
(c) Self-interest and religion.
(d) Reason and self-interest.

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

3. What rebellion does Camus reference in Part 3?
(a) Spartacus.
(b) Prometheus.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Nietzsche.

4. What problem does Nietzsche's philosophy revolve around?
(a) Atheism.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Nihilism.
(d) Revolution.

5. In Part 3, who does Camus say is one of the "most remarkable and influential minds of the 1830s and 40s"?
(a) Saint-Just.
(b) Bielinsky.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Sade.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to this Russian theoretician, who are the greatest fanatics?

2. In Part 2, Camus explains Nietzsche recognized himself as the "most acute manifestation" of what?

3. According to Part 3, Saint-Just is a contemporary of whom?

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

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

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