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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) Master and slave.
(c) Rebel and victim.
(d) Politician and priest.

2. According to Camus in Part 5, rebellion has become the excuse for a new variety of what?
(a) Priests.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Artists.
(d) Tyrants.

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

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

5. In what writing does Camus think the "real greatness of Proust lies"?
(a) Remembrance of Things Past.
(b) Time Regained.
(c) Communist Manifesto.
(d) The Stranger.

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

7. According to Camus in Part 3, what did Germany submit to when deprived of Goethe's morality?
(a) Politics of the rebels.
(b) Religion of the gang.
(c) Money from the gang.
(d) Ethics of the gang.

8. According to Part 4, art realizes the reconciliation of the what with the universal?
(a) Unique.
(b) Boring.
(c) Strange.
(d) New.

9. In Part 3, Camus says rebellion and revolution end in the same dilemma of what two things?
(a) Government rule or insanity.
(b) Police rule or insanity.
(c) Mortality or immortality.
(d) Morality or immortality.

10. 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.

11. In Part 5, murder is what or it is nothing?
(a) A weak excuse.
(b) Accepted.
(c) Required.
(d) A desperate exception.

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

13. The power to kill and degrade saves the soul from what in Part 3?
(a) Utter elation.
(b) Utter emptiness.
(c) Utter saddness,
(d) Utter happiness.

14. A man's rebellion is refusal to be treated as what, according to Part 3?
(a) A leader.
(b) A politician.
(c) An object.
(d) A heretic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marx believe people have a nostalgia for, according to Part 4?

2. According to Part 3, revolution is condemned to renounce what?

3. According to Camus in Part 3, what is one of the limits of man's existence?

4. What does Camus say people become intimates of at the "climax of contemporary tragedy"?

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

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