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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Camus' introduction, what does he say "remains an exception"?
(a) Murder.
(b) Passion.
(c) Love.
(d) Philosophy.

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

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

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

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

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

8. According to Camus in Part 2, when man submits God to what does he kill Him in his "own heart"?
(a) Satan.
(b) Moral judgment.
(c) Metaphysical rebellion.
(d) Reasoning.

9. According to Part 3, nihilists believed in nothing but what?
(a) Reason and self-interest.
(b) Reality and self-interest.
(c) Self-interest and religion.
(d) Reason and reality.

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

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

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

13. According to Part 3, what is limited in scope by its nature?
(a) Religion.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Crime.
(d) Revolution.

14. In Part 2, the maximum of enjoyment coincides with the maximum of what?
(a) Love.
(b) Destruction.
(c) Rebellion.
(d) Revolution.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Possessed?

2. What rebellion does Camus reference in Part 3?

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

4. What did Nietzsche diagnose in himself?

5. What belief system accepts suicide as legitimate?

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