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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In Part 5, what does Camus say precedes death on the stage and in reality?
(a) Rebellion.
(b) War.
(c) Apology.
(d) A monologue.

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

5. According to Camus in Part 3, what is one choosing when one chooses history?
(a) Marxism.
(b) Hitlerism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Nihilism.

6. In Part 4, Rousseau denounced a corruption of what in art by society?
(a) Nurture.
(b) Nature.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Beauty.

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

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

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

10. What does Camus think, in Part 3, the Fascist revolutions of the twentieth century lack?
(a) Leaders.
(b) Religion.
(c) Universality.
(d) Rebellion.

11. What type of temple does Camus say nihilism builds in Part 3?
(a) Hitler.
(b) Caesar.
(c) Sade.
(d) Marx.

12. According to revolution in Part 3, man is nothing if he does not obtain what?
(a) Power.
(b) Crime.
(c) Unanimous approval.
(d) Money.

13. According to Part 4, what is artistic creation a rejection of?
(a) The world.
(b) The nation.
(c) The locals.
(d) The state.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Camus say people must stake everything on in Part 3?

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

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

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