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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What problem does Nietzsche's philosophy revolve around?
(a) Nihilism.
(b) Atheism.
(c) Revolution.
(d) Rebellion.

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

3. According to Camus in Part 2, what is only useful for "adventures of the imagination"?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Nihilism.
(d) Romanticism.

4. According to Part 3, moral corruption is also what?
(a) Religious corruption.
(b) Emotional corruption.
(c) Political corruption.
(d) Philosophical corruption.

5. At the end of Part 2, what does man add to irrational crimes?
(a) Crimes of passion.
(b) Crimes of religion.
(c) Crimes of logic.
(d) Crimes of reason.

6. Camus says in Part 2 that who's negation is the most extreme?
(a) Prometheus.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Sade.

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

8. In the introduction, if nothing is true or false or good or bad, man's guiding principle is to demonstrate that he is what?
(a) Weak.
(b) Logical.
(c) Efficient.
(d) Absurd.

9. As stated in Camus' introduction, "In an age of ideologies, we must examine our position in relation to" what?
(a) Love.
(b) Murder.
(c) Crime.
(d) Suicide.

10. According to Part 3, Saint-Just is a contemporary of whom?
(a) Hitler.
(b) Sade.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Voltaire.

11. In Part 3, what divides the sovereign?
(a) Factions.
(b) Lies.
(c) Government.
(d) Religion.

12. Who, according to Camus in Part 2, committed the first act of rebellion?
(a) Satan.
(b) Abel.
(c) God.
(d) Cain.

13. According to Part 2, what is the only religion that is present throughout history?
(a) Belief in philosophy.
(b) Belief in government.
(c) Belief in love.
(d) Belief in eternity.

14. In Part 3, the will of the people is the expression of what?
(a) Universal reason.
(b) Moral conduct.
(c) Religion.
(d) Nihilistic rebellion.

15. What belief system accepts suicide as legitimate?
(a) Absolute nihilism.
(b) Romanticism.
(c) Marxism.
(d) Dandyism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nietzscheism as defined by Camus in Part 2 is the theory of the individual's will to what?

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

3. In Part 2's introduction, the most elementary form of rebellion expresses an aspiration to what?

4. By what concept is metaphysical rebellion motivated by?

5. In Part 3, who does Camus say is one of the "most remarkable and influential minds of the 1830s and 40s"?

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