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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Murderer or saint.
(d) Politician or writer.

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

4. In Part 5, nihilism rejects the idea of what?
(a) Rebellion.
(b) Politics.
(c) Any limit.
(d) Murder.

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

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

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

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

9. According to Camus in Part 4, the world of Proust is nothing but what?
(a) Truth.
(b) Reality.
(c) Memory.
(d) Unity.

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

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

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

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

14. What does Camus think the methods of thought that claim to lead the world into revolution have become in Part 3?
(a) Ideologies of rebellion.
(b) Ideologies of consent.
(c) Ideologies of hatred.
(d) Ideologies of politics.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of temple does Camus say nihilism builds in Part 3?

3. According to Camus in Part 3, what is one of the limits of man's existence?

4. According to Camus in Part 3, what did Germany submit to when deprived of Goethe's morality?

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

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