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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Camus in Part 4, what does the American novel reject?
(a) Analysis.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Rebellion.
(d) Truth.

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

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

5. What does Camus say people become intimates of at the "climax of contemporary tragedy"?
(a) Crime.
(b) Power.
(c) Art.
(d) Religion.

6. According to Part 3, prophecy functions on what type of basis?
(a) Long-term.
(b) Middle-term.
(c) Short-term.
(d) Eternity.

7. Who considers beauty more important than the world, according to Part 4?
(a) Plato.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Hitler.
(d) Marx.

8. What type of temple does Camus say nihilism builds in Part 3?
(a) Sade.
(b) Hitler.
(c) Marx.
(d) Caesar.

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

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

11. According to Part 3, revolution is condemned to renounce what?
(a) Marxism.
(b) Hitlerism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Nihilism.

12. In Part 5, Camus states that the extreme of nihilism is when blind and savage murder becomes what?
(a) Honored.
(b) Expected.
(c) Commonplace.
(d) An oasis.

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

14. Camus says in Part 5 that the blood of murder in ancient times produced what?
(a) Religious horror.
(b) Artistic rebellion.
(c) Moral conduct.
(d) Absolute reality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The power to kill and degrade saves the soul from what in Part 3?

2. In Part 3, all modern revolutions end in a reinforcement of the power of what?

3. What era followed the metaphysical and theological eras?

4. In Part 3, Camus says revolution is an attempt to conquer what?

5. What writer does Camus say the French Revolution "gave birth" to?

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