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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Camus states in Part 5 that there is nothing in common between what two people?
(a) Writer and painter.
(b) Rebel and victim.
(c) Politician and priest.
(d) Master and slave.

2. In Part 3, what alone kept Hitler alive?
(a) Action.
(b) Money.
(c) Politics.
(d) Hatred.

3. According to Part 4, what is the most ambitious of the arts?
(a) Painting.
(b) Singing.
(c) Writing.
(d) Sculpture.

4. Artistic creation is a demand for what in Part 4?
(a) Respect.
(b) Truth.
(c) Power.
(d) Unity.

5. In the hour of Hitler's defeat, he believed himself betrayed by who?
(a) His Rivals.
(b) His Family.
(c) His People.
(d) His God.

6. According to Camus in Part 3, what is one choosing when one chooses history?
(a) Hitlerism.
(b) Marxism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Nihilism.

7. According to Camus in Part 5, the climax of every tragedy lies in the what of its heroes?
(a) Blindness.
(b) Handicap.
(c) Deafness.
(d) Thoughts.

8. According to Part 4, what is one of the sources of the art of fiction?
(a) Rebellion.
(b) Unity.
(c) Reality.
(d) Love.

9. If rebellion is cut off from its origins, what does is oscillate between according to Camus in Part 5?
(a) Right and wrong.
(b) Suicide and murder.
(c) Sacrifice and murder.
(d) Crime and punishment.

10. What is "more useful than Shakespeare" to Pisarev, according to Part 4?
(a) A pair of shoes.
(b) A shirt.
(c) A pair of pants.
(d) A hat.

11. In Part 3, all modern revolutions end in a reinforcement of the power of what?
(a) The Nation.
(b) God.
(c) The State.
(d) The People.

12. In Part 3, Camus states Junger thought it was better to be criminal than what?
(a) Bourgeois.
(b) Powerful.
(c) Religious.
(d) Poor.

13. The desire for what is another form of the desire to endure, according to Part 4?
(a) Reality.
(b) Passion.
(c) Possession.
(d) Religion.

14. According to Camus in Part 3, Hitler's god was what?
(a) A nihilist.
(b) A political argument.
(c) A religious figure.
(d) A non-believer.

15. According to revolution in Part 3, man is nothing if he does not obtain what?
(a) Crime.
(b) Money.
(c) Power.
(d) Unanimous approval.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 5, nihilism rejects the idea of what?

2. What era followed the metaphysical and theological eras?

3. According to Part 3, Russian Communism openly aspires to what?

4. Camus believes the longing for what "coincides with the acceptance of iniquity"?

5. According to Part 4, Nietzsche said no artist tolerates what?

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