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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 3, Bakunin was the only one of his contemporaries to declare war on what?
(a) Literature.
(b) Science.
(c) Religion.
(d) Politics.

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

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

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

5. According to Stirner in Part 2, what leads to the justification of crime?
(a) Power.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Revolution.
(d) Love.

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

7. In Part 2, who wanted to "eradicate God from man's mind"?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Camus.
(c) Sade.
(d) Stirner.

8. In Part 3, what is a "long and painful struggle in the darkness"?
(a) Rebellion.
(b) Religion.
(c) Love.
(d) Politics.

9. According to Camus in Part 2, what is only useful for "adventures of the imagination"?
(a) Romanticism.
(b) Nihilism.
(c) Rebellion.
(d) Christianity.

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

11. According to Camus' introduction, one purpose is to find out if what can avoid committing murder?
(a) Love.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Logic.
(d) Innocence.

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

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

14. Camus says in Part 2 that who's negation is the most extreme?
(a) Prometheus.
(b) Sade.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Nietzsche.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, according to Camus in Part 2, committed the first act of rebellion?

2. According to Part 3, what is limited in scope by its nature?

3. According to Hezen in Part 3, "The annihilation of the past is the protection of" what?

4. Who wrote The Possessed?

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

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