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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Part 3, people who despair about everything can only be provided with faith by what?
(a) Money.
(b) Passion.
(c) Reason.
(d) Politics.

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

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

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

6. According to Camus in Part 5, what preaches a sermon on charity?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Reality.
(c) Rebellion.
(d) Religion.

7. What does Camus say people must stake everything on in Part 3?
(a) The book.
(b) The history.
(c) The renaissance.
(d) The religion.

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

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

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

11. Camus believes the longing for what "coincides with the acceptance of iniquity"?
(a) Rest and peace.
(b) Power and politics.
(c) Love and money.
(d) Murder and suicide.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What era followed the metaphysical and theological eras?

2. According to Camus in Part 4, the world of Proust is nothing but what?

3. According to Part 4, art realizes the reconciliation of the what with the universal?

4. Hitler invented the perpetual motion of what, according to Part 3?

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

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