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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Society of the Friends of Crime?
(a) Sade.
(b) Marx.
(c) Camus.
(d) Voltaire.

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

3. In the introduction, what is it always possible to do?
(a) To commit crime.
(b) To delegate murder.
(c) To act reasonably.
(d) To act illogically.

4. According to Part 3, monarchy wants to put what before justice?
(a) Power.
(b) Love.
(c) Money.
(d) Grace.

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

6. According to Part 3, The Social Contract is an inquiry into the legitimacy of what?
(a) Power.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Religion.
(d) Justice.

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

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

9. With Nietzsche in Part 2, what is no longer a revenge?
(a) Evil.
(b) Power.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Satan.

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

11. Nietzsche cannot separate what from lucidity?
(a) Methodical doubt.
(b) Moral conduct.
(c) Metaphysical rebellion.
(d) Real morality.

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

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

14. What did Nietzsche diagnose in himself?
(a) The inability to be persuasive.
(b) The inability to maintain power.
(c) The inability to write.
(d) The inability to believe.

15. For Camus in Part 2, what is the history of rebellion inseparable from?
(a) Hitlerism.
(b) Nihilism.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Greek mythology.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Camus' introduction, to what is to judge?

2. What does Part 3 focus on?

3. According to Part 3, Saint-Just is a contemporary of whom?

4. What concept does Nietzsche encounter?

5. In Part 2, Camus states that the great problem of modern times is the discovery that rescuing man from destiny delivers him to what?

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