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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what writing does Camus think the "real greatness of Proust lies"?
(a) Communist Manifesto.
(b) The Stranger.
(c) Time Regained.
(d) Remembrance of Things Past.

2. What did Nietzsche diagnose in himself?
(a) The inability to maintain power.
(b) The inability to believe.
(c) The inability to write.
(d) The inability to be persuasive.

3. According to Part 3, what are the two contemporary forms of nihilism?
(a) State and national.
(b) Individual and state.
(c) Individual and national.
(d) Local and state.

4. What does Camus think the methods of thought that claim to lead the world into revolution have become in Part 3?
(a) Ideologies of politics.
(b) Ideologies of rebellion.
(c) Ideologies of hatred.
(d) Ideologies of consent.

5. What is, according to Part 2, in itself a sign of decadence?
(a) Atheism.
(b) Murder.
(c) Nihilism.
(d) Moral conduct.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Part 3, monarchy wants to put what before justice?

2. According to Camus in Part 3, what did Germany submit to when deprived of Goethe's morality?

3. Who does Fascism discover is the "master of death" in Part 3?

4. According to Part 3, Bakunin believed what is the incarnation of crime?

5. What does Marx believe people have a nostalgia for, according to Part 4?

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