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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Camus, the rebel does what more than he denies?
(a) Sleeps.
(b) Murders.
(c) Lies.
(d) Defies.

2. What concept does Nietzsche encounter?
(a) Hitlerism.
(b) Marxism.
(c) Absurdity.
(d) Atheism.

3. According to Camus in Part 2, what "never has the patience to await complete control of the world?"
(a) Law of conflict.
(b) Law of religion.
(c) Law of murder.
(d) Law of power.

4. What two forms of rebellion are being considered in the book?
(a) Love and hate.
(b) Power and pain.
(c) Metaphyiscal and historical.
(d) Murder and suicide.

5. According to Part 3, what are the two contemporary forms of nihilism?
(a) Individual and national.
(b) State and national.
(c) Individual and state.
(d) Local and state.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Part 2, what is the only religion that is present throughout history?

2. In Part 2, Camus explains Nietzsche recognized himself as the "most acute manifestation" of what?

3. In Part 3, total revolution ends by demanding control of what?

4. According to Part 3, what is the "only logical consequence of metaphysical rebellion"?

5. In Part 3, what divides the sovereign?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is rebellion forced to become revolutionary in the twentieth century?

2. Why did Marx believe beauty created by the Greeks was still considered beautiful?

3. What did Nietzsche believe was his "supreme vocation," according to Camus in Part 2?

4. According to Camus in Part 2, what is the only thing that gives meaning to human protest?

5. How does Camus define a rebel in Part 1?

6. What does Camus say in Part 3 is the purpose of his book?

7. What does Camus say has happened to the methods of thought that claimed lead of the world in the name of revolution in Part 3?

8. According to Camus in Part 4, what is the achievement of truly great creative artists?

9. According to Camus in Part Three, how did the nihilists give their successors a model?

10. How does Camus describe monarchy in a theocratic form in Part 3?

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