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

2. According to Part 3, what does honor lay in?
(a) Money.
(b) Religion.
(c) Obedience.
(d) Power.

3. According to Camus, suffering at times turns away from too painful expressions of what?
(a) Thought.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Religion.

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

5. According to Part 3, what is rebellion's demand?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Power.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Unity.

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

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

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

9. Artistic creation is a demand for what in Part 4?
(a) Unity.
(b) Respect.
(c) Power.
(d) Truth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 5, nihilism rejects the idea of what?

2. According to Part 4, Nietzsche said no artist tolerates what?

3. According to Camus in Part 5, what preaches a sermon on charity?

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

5. In Part 3, men of action only believe in action when they are without what?

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