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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The ancients, according to Part 2, believed rebelling against nature was the same as rebelling against what?
(a) Government.
(b) God.
(c) Oneself.
(d) Satan.

3. 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) Revolution.
(b) Metaphysical rebellion.
(c) Nihilism.
(d) Historical rebellion.

4. By what concept is metaphysical rebellion motivated by?
(a) Absolute murder.
(b) Universal truth.
(c) Power.
(d) Complete unity.

5. According to Part 3, Hegel allowed mutual recognition of minds to be reached in what?
(a) Politics.
(b) Religion.
(c) Love.
(d) Power.

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

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

8. What is the only evidence given to Camus within the terms of the absurdist experience?
(a) Power.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Love.
(d) Revolution.

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

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

11. In the introduction, rebellion is born of the spectacle of what?
(a) Revolution.
(b) Murder.
(c) Irrationality.
(d) Love.

12. What is, according to Part 2, in itself a sign of decadence?
(a) Atheism.
(b) Murder.
(c) Moral conduct.
(d) Nihilism.

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

14. According to Part 3, what is the "only logical consequence of metaphysical rebellion"?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Revolution.
(c) Nihilism.
(d) Murder.

15. In the Introduction, what does Camus say criminals use as an alibi?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Premeditation.
(c) Logic.
(d) Passion.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Camus in Part 1, every rebellion invokes what?

2. Who is a theoretician of Russian nihilism?

3. In Part 3, Bakunin was the only one of his contemporaries to declare war on what?

4. What belief system accepts suicide as legitimate?

5. According to Part 3, Bakunin believed what is the incarnation of crime?

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