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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, the climax of every tragedy lies in the what of its heroes?
(a) Blindness.
(b) Thoughts.
(c) Deafness.
(d) Handicap.

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

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

4. Who does Fascism discover is the "master of death" in Part 3?
(a) God.
(b) Satan.
(c) Marx.
(d) Hitler.

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

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

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

8. In Part 3, all modern revolutions end in a reinforcement of the power of what?
(a) God.
(b) The People.
(c) The State.
(d) The Nation.

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

10. 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.

11. What is "more useful than Shakespeare" to Pisarev, according to Part 4?
(a) A pair of shoes.
(b) A shirt.
(c) A hat.
(d) A pair of pants.

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

13. If rebellion is cut off from its origins, what does is oscillate between according to Camus in Part 5?
(a) Sacrifice and murder.
(b) Right and wrong.
(c) Crime and punishment.
(d) Suicide and murder.

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

15. The power to kill and degrade saves the soul from what in Part 3?
(a) Utter happiness.
(b) Utter emptiness.
(c) Utter elation.
(d) Utter saddness,

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 3, Camus states Junger thought it was better to be criminal than what?

2. What does Camus say people become intimates of at the "climax of contemporary tragedy"?

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

4. What does the Reformation choose, according to Part 4?

5. Camus says in Part 5 that the blood of murder in ancient times produced what?

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