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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Nietzscheism as defined by Camus in Part 2 is the theory of the individual's will to what?
(a) Power.
(b) Money.
(c) Love.
(d) Religion.

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

3. What is the only evidence given to Camus within the terms of the absurdist experience?
(a) Love.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Power.
(d) Revolution.

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

5. In Part 2's introduction, the most elementary form of rebellion expresses an aspiration to what?
(a) Power.
(b) Murder.
(c) Values.
(d) Order.

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

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

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

9. According to Camus in Part 3, what happened to those who talked about the immortality of the soul?
(a) Hanged.
(b) Murdered.
(c) Excommunicated.
(d) Exiled.

10. According to Part 3, rebellion is compelled to become what?
(a) Atheism.
(b) Destruction.
(c) Revolution.
(d) Religion.

11. In Part 3, who does Camus say is one of the "most remarkable and influential minds of the 1830s and 40s"?
(a) Sade.
(b) Saint-Just.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Bielinsky.

12. According to Camus' introduction, what is rare?
(a) Logic.
(b) Perfect crime.
(c) Passion.
(d) Intense love.

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

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

15. Who wrote The Possessed?
(a) Dostoyevsky.
(b) Sade.
(c) Camus.
(d) Bukanin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What becomes prophetic with Nietzsche in Part 2?

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

3. Nietzsche cannot separate what from lucidity?

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

5. According to Part 3, The Social Contract is an inquiry into the legitimacy of what?

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