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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the introduction, what is the only creature that refuses to be what it is?
(a) Fish.
(b) Horses.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Man.

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

4. According to Camus in Part 2, a metaphysical rebel is inevitably what?
(a) A Marxist.
(b) A nihilist.
(c) An atheist.
(d) A blasphemer.

5. Violence is directed at one and all in the service of what?
(a) An unreasonable offer.
(b) An abstract idea.
(c) An altrustic idea.
(d) An absolute value.

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

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

8. Who do the first mythologies describe as an "eternal martyr"?
(a) Eschylus.
(b) Satan.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Prometheus.

9. Who, according to Part 3, pushed nihilism to the "farthest coherent point"?
(a) Bakunin.
(b) Nechaiev.
(c) Hitler.
(d) Nietzsche.

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

11. According to Part 3, what are a majority of revolutions shaped by?
(a) Money.
(b) Religion.
(c) Power.
(d) Murder.

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

13. According to Camus' introduction, to what is to judge?
(a) Love.
(b) Breathe.
(c) Think.
(d) Murder.

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

15. In Part 3, what must an individual destroy to confirm his own existence?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Reason.
(c) Himself.
(d) Reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Saint-Just in Part 3, what is stronger than tyrants?

2. According to Stirner in Part 2, what leads to the justification of crime?

3. According to Camus in Part 3, what happened to those who talked about the immortality of the soul?

4. With Nietzsche in Part 2, what is no longer a revenge?

5. What concept does Nietzsche encounter?

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