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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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.

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

6. Fascism is an act of what in Part 3?
(a) Power.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) History.
(d) Contempt.

7. In Part 3, men of action only believe in action when they are without what?
(a) Money.
(b) Friends.
(c) Power.
(d) Faith.

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

9. 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) Politics of the rebels.
(d) Ethics of the gang.

10. What does the Reformation choose, according to Part 4?
(a) Logic.
(b) Power.
(c) Morality.
(d) Beauty.

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

12. What era followed the metaphysical and theological eras?
(a) Communist.
(b) Nihilist.
(c) Marxist.
(d) Positivist.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who considers beauty more important than the world, according to Part 4?

2. According to revolution in Part 3, man is nothing if he does not obtain what?

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

4. According to Part 3, a revolution based on what kills God in His representative on Earth?

5. What does Camus say people must stake everything on in Part 3?

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