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

2. In Part 3, total revolution ends by demanding control of what?
(a) Government.
(b) Poetry.
(c) God.
(d) The world.

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

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

5. According to Part 3, what naturally establishes the Republic of law and order?
(a) Religion of power.
(b) Nihilism.
(c) Religion of reason.
(d) Socialism.

6. According to this Russian theoretician, who are the greatest fanatics?
(a) Children and adolescents.
(b) Children and adults.
(c) Adults and infants.
(d) Adolescents and adults.

7. According to Part 1, remaining silent gives the appearance that one has no what?
(a) Thoughts.
(b) Feelings.
(c) Tongue.
(d) Opinions.

8. What, according to the introduction of Part 3, is the "motivating principle of all revolutions"?
(a) Love.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Murder.
(d) Crime.

9. According to Part 3, destroying everything pledges oneself to build without what?
(a) Supplies.
(b) Truth.
(c) Religion.
(d) Foundations.

10. What rebellion does Camus reference in Part 3?
(a) Spartacus.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Prometheus.

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

12. What is the only form of freedom for Stirner?
(a) Egotism.
(b) Power.
(c) Love.
(d) Rebellion.

13. What concept does Nietzsche encounter?
(a) Hitlerism.
(b) Atheism.
(c) Marxism.
(d) Absurdity.

14. In Part 2, who wanted to "eradicate God from man's mind"?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Camus.
(c) Sade.
(d) Stirner.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For Camus in Part 2, what is the history of rebellion inseparable from?

2. The only salvation lies in what, according to Part 3?

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

4. Who, according to Part 3, pushed nihilism to the "farthest coherent point"?

5. According to Camus' introduction, what is rare?

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