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

2. According to Part 2, what is the only religion that is present throughout history?
(a) Belief in eternity.
(b) Belief in love.
(c) Belief in philosophy.
(d) Belief in government.

3. According to Part 2's introduction, the "movement by which man protests against his condition and against the whole of creation" is called what?
(a) Historical rebellion.
(b) Nihilism.
(c) Metaphysical rebellion.
(d) Revolution.

4. In Part 3, Bakunin was the only one of his contemporaries to declare war on what?
(a) Religion.
(b) Literature.
(c) Science.
(d) Politics.

5. Camus says in Part 2 that who's negation is the most extreme?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Sade.
(d) Prometheus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nietzscheism as defined by Camus in Part 2 is the theory of the individual's will to what?

2. According to Camus' introduction, to what is to judge?

3. According to Camus' introduction, what is rare?

4. What is the only form of freedom for Stirner?

5. Nietzsche cannot separate what from lucidity?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the purpose of Camus' essay as outlined in the Introduction?

2. What does Camus say in Part 5 is the consequence of rebellion?

3. Why does Camus believe Sade became the first theoretician of absolute rebellion?

4. According to Camus in Part 3, how does a revolution based on principles destroy God?

5. How does the revolution Camus references have the same meaning as revolution as referenced in astronomy?

6. What does Stirner believe is the only form of freedom and only truth?

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

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

9. According to Camus in Part 3, what coincides with the acceptance of iniquity?

10. According to Camus in Part 5, what happens at the climax of contemporary tragedy?

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