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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 3, people who despair about everything can only be provided with faith by what?
(a) Passion.
(b) Reason.
(c) Money.
(d) Politics.

2. According to Part 4, Nietzsche said no artist tolerates what?
(a) Rebellion.
(b) Revolution.
(c) Reality.
(d) Religion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. What is historical revolution's demand, according to Part 3?
(a) Money.
(b) Religion.
(c) Murder.
(d) Totality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Fascism discover is the "master of death" in Part 3?

2. In Part 3, Camus says rebellion and revolution end in the same dilemma of what two things?

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

4. The power to kill and degrade saves the soul from what in Part 3?

5. In Part 5, Camus states that the extreme of nihilism is when blind and savage murder becomes what?

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