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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is, according to Part 2, in itself a sign of decadence?
(a) Moral conduct.
(b) Murder.
(c) Nihilism.
(d) Atheism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. In Part 2, Camus explains Nietzsche recognized himself as the "most acute manifestation" of what?
(a) Atheism's beliefs.
(b) Nihilism's conscience.
(c) Rebellion's reasoning.
(d) Christianity's values.

11. What was one of the first groups of Russian revolutionaries?
(a) The Rebels.
(b) The Greeks.
(c) The Nazis.
(d) The Decemberists.

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

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

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

15. What rebellion does Camus reference in Part 3?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Prometheus.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Spartacus.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the introduction, rebellion is born of the spectacle of what?

2. What problem does Nietzsche's philosophy revolve around?

3. What belief system accepts suicide as legitimate?

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

5. According to Part 3, Saint-Just is a contemporary of whom?

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