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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 3, all modern revolutions end in a reinforcement of the power of what?
(a) The Nation.
(b) The State.
(c) The People.
(d) God.

2. Who is a theoretician of Russian nihilism?
(a) Saint-Just.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Sade.
(d) Pisarev.

3. In Part 3, people who despair about everything can only be provided with faith by what?
(a) Passion.
(b) Money.
(c) Politics.
(d) Reason.

4. What does Camus say is the homage the "malignant recluse finally pays to the brotherhood of man" in Part 3?
(a) Silence.
(b) Terror.
(c) Communism.
(d) Suicide.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Camus in Part 3, men kill each other because they desire what?

2. According to Part 4, what is one of the sources of the art of fiction?

3. According to Part 2, what is a "degenerate form of Christianity"?

4. What era followed the metaphysical and theological eras?

5. At the end of Part 2, what does man add to irrational crimes?

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