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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Camus say is the homage the "malignant recluse finally pays to the brotherhood of man" in Part 3?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Silence.
(c) Communism.
(d) Terror.

2. What does Camus think the methods of thought that claim to lead the world into revolution have become in Part 3?
(a) Ideologies of consent.
(b) Ideologies of politics.
(c) Ideologies of rebellion.
(d) Ideologies of hatred.

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

4. What does Camus think, in Part 3, the Fascist revolutions of the twentieth century lack?
(a) Universality.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Leaders.
(d) Religion.

5. According to Camus in Part 3, what is one of the limits of man's existence?
(a) History.
(b) Power.
(c) Money.
(d) Thought.

6. Hitler invented the perpetual motion of what, according to Part 3?
(a) Power.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Conquest.
(d) Murder.

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

8. According to Camus in Part 3, Hilter was what in its "purest form"?
(a) Politics.
(b) Power.
(c) Hatred.
(d) History.

9. 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.

10. According to Part 4, what is artistic creation a rejection of?
(a) The state.
(b) The locals.
(c) The world.
(d) The nation.

11. In Part 4, Rousseau denounced a corruption of what in art by society?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Nurture.
(d) Nature.

12. Camus says in Part 3 that every revolutionary ends by becoming one of what two things?
(a) Politician or writer.
(b) Leader or follower.
(c) Oppressor or heretic.
(d) Murderer or saint.

13. According to Part 4, Nietzsche said no artist tolerates what?
(a) Reality.
(b) Revolution.
(c) Rebellion.
(d) Religion.

14. According to Camus in Part 5, what is the only way a rebel can reconcile himself with committing murder?
(a) Writing an apology.
(b) Murdering again.
(c) Accepting his own death.
(d) Going to court.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 3, Camus says rebellion and revolution end in the same dilemma of what two things?

2. A man's rebellion is refusal to be treated as what, according to Part 3?

3. According to Camus in Part 5, what preaches a sermon on charity?

4. According to Camus in Part 5, the climax of every tragedy lies in the what of its heroes?

5. According to Camus in Part 3, men kill each other because they desire what?

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