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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Artistic creation is a demand for what in Part 4?
(a) Power.
(b) Respect.
(c) Unity.
(d) Truth.

4. According to Part 3, Bakunin believed what is the incarnation of crime?
(a) The State.
(b) The Nazis.
(c) The Priests.
(d) The Government.

5. The power to kill and degrade saves the soul from what in Part 3?
(a) Utter elation.
(b) Utter saddness,
(c) Utter happiness.
(d) Utter emptiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Part 3, moral corruption is also what?

2. In Part 5, Camus states that the extreme of nihilism is when blind and savage murder becomes what?

3. Who is a theoretician of Russian nihilism?

4. The ancient regime monarchy was founded on what?

5. According to Part 4, what is the most ambitious of the arts?

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