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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. According to Camus in Part 3, men kill each other because they desire what?
(a) Love.
(b) Power.
(c) Mortality.
(d) Immortality.

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

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

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

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

13. According to Part 3, a revolution based on what kills God in His representative on Earth?
(a) Principles.
(b) Values.
(c) Power.
(d) Politics.

14. According to Part 3, Russian Communism openly aspires to what?
(a) Socialism.
(b) World empire.
(c) Nothing.
(d) National rule.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Camus says in Part 3 that every revolutionary ends by becoming one of what two things?

2. Fascism is an act of what in Part 3?

3. According to Part 4, what is artistic creation a rejection of?

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

5. In Part 5, murder is what or it is nothing?

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