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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The ancient regime monarchy was founded on what?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Honest government.
(c) Divine right.
(d) Slave rebellion.

2. What two forms of rebellion are being considered in the book?
(a) Power and pain.
(b) Murder and suicide.
(c) Love and hate.
(d) Metaphyiscal and historical.

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

11. According to Camus in Part 1, every rebellion invokes what?
(a) An opinion.
(b) A feeling.
(c) A value.
(d) A murder.

12. What does Camus believe is as "universal as science"?
(a) Logic.
(b) Love.
(c) Crime.
(d) Philosophy.

13. Who is a theoretician of Russian nihilism?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Pisarev.
(c) Saint-Just.
(d) Sade.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Part 3, rebellion is compelled to become what?

2. According to Camus in Part 2, what "never has the patience to await complete control of the world?"

3. In Camus' introduction, what does he say "remains an exception"?

4. According to Hezen in Part 3, "The annihilation of the past is the protection of" what?

5. According to Part 3, destroying everything pledges oneself to build without what?

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