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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Part 3, rebellion is compelled to become what?
(a) Destruction.
(b) Atheism.
(c) Religion.
(d) Revolution.

3. According to Camus in Part 2, when man submits God to what does he kill Him in his "own heart"?
(a) Reasoning.
(b) Metaphysical rebellion.
(c) Satan.
(d) Moral judgment.

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

5. Violence is directed at one and all in the service of what?
(a) An unreasonable offer.
(b) An absolute value.
(c) An altrustic idea.
(d) An abstract idea.

6. According to Hezen in Part 3, "The annihilation of the past is the protection of" what?
(a) Government.
(b) Religion.
(c) The future.
(d) History.

7. According to Camus, we are living in an era of what and perfect crime?
(a) Passion.
(b) Premeditation.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Logic.

8. The only salvation lies in what, according to Part 3?
(a) Extermination.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Revolution.
(d) Suicide.

9. According to Part 3, if everything is logical then everything is what?
(a) Justified.
(b) Religious.
(c) Wrong.
(d) Valued.

10. Human rebellion ends in what, according to Part 2's introduction?
(a) Historical rebellion.
(b) Metaphysical revolution.
(c) Hitlerism.
(d) Nihilism.

11. Nietzscheism as defined by Camus in Part 2 is the theory of the individual's will to what?
(a) Money.
(b) Religion.
(c) Power.
(d) Love.

12. According to Part 2's introduction, the "movement by which man protests against his condition and against the whole of creation" is called what?
(a) Historical rebellion.
(b) Revolution.
(c) Nihilism.
(d) Metaphysical rebellion.

13. Who do the first mythologies describe as an "eternal martyr"?
(a) Satan.
(b) Eschylus.
(c) Prometheus.
(d) Zeus.

14. According to Camus, the rebel does what more than he denies?
(a) Murders.
(b) Lies.
(c) Defies.
(d) Sleeps.

15. According to Camus' introduction, one purpose is to find out if what can avoid committing murder?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Innocence.
(c) Logic.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Part 3, what naturally establishes the Republic of law and order?

2. In Part 3, the will of the people is the expression of what?

3. What becomes prophetic with Nietzsche in Part 2?

4. With Nietzsche in Part 2, what is no longer a revenge?

5. What does Camus believe is as "universal as science"?

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