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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Nietzsche in Part 2, freedom of the mind is not a comfort but a what?
(a) Belief.
(b) Failure.
(c) Expectation.
(d) Achievement.

2. In the introduction, rebellion is born of the spectacle of what?
(a) Revolution.
(b) Murder.
(c) Love.
(d) Irrationality.

3. Human rebellion ends in what, according to Part 2's introduction?
(a) Metaphysical revolution.
(b) Historical rebellion.
(c) Nihilism.
(d) Hitlerism.

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

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

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

7. What is the guiding principle of this person's reasoning?
(a) Revolution.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Atheism.
(d) Double rebellion.

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

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

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

11. In the introduction, if nothing is true or false or good or bad, man's guiding principle is to demonstrate that he is what?
(a) Logical.
(b) Absurd.
(c) Weak.
(d) Efficient.

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

13. What did Nietzsche practice instead of methodical doubt?
(a) Methodical negation.
(b) Historical rebellion.
(c) Methodical crime.
(d) Metaphysical rebellion.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 2, who wanted to "eradicate God from man's mind"?

2. What has to be alive in order to say life is absurd, according to the introduction?

3. At the end of Part 2, what does man add to irrational crimes?

4. According to Part 3, monarchy wants to put what before justice?

5. According to Part 2's introduction, the "movement by which man protests against his condition and against the whole of creation" is called what?

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