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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What writer does Camus say the French Revolution "gave birth" to?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Plato.
(c) Marx.
(d) Sade.

2. Who, according to Part 3, pushed nihilism to the "farthest coherent point"?
(a) Bakunin.
(b) Nechaiev.
(c) Hitler.
(d) Nietzsche.

3. In Part 3, Camus says revolution is an attempt to conquer what?
(a) A new religion.
(b) A new existence.
(c) Evil.
(d) History.

4. According to Saint-Just in Part 3, what is stronger than tyrants?
(a) Religion.
(b) Morality.
(c) Revolution.
(d) Power.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Nietzsche in Part 2, freedom of the mind is not a comfort but a what?

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

3. According to Part 4, art realizes the reconciliation of the what with the universal?

4. Who wrote The Possessed?

5. What era followed the metaphysical and theological eras?

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