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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. According to Part 4, art realizes the reconciliation of the what with the universal?
(a) Unique.
(b) New.
(c) Boring.
(d) Strange.

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

10. According to revolutionary interpreters of Hegel, what will no longer exist in reconciled society?
(a) Rebellion.
(b) Logic.
(c) Art.
(d) Government.

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

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

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

14. Camus says in Part 3 that every revolutionary ends by becoming one of what two things?
(a) Leader or follower.
(b) Politician or writer.
(c) Oppressor or heretic.
(d) Murderer or saint.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Part 3, what is rebellion's demand?

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

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

4. In the hour of Hitler's defeat, he believed himself betrayed by who?

5. What does Camus think, in Part 3, the Fascist revolutions of the twentieth century lack?

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