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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 Part 3, The Social Contract is an inquiry into the legitimacy of what?
(a) Justice.
(b) Power.
(c) Religion.
(d) Rebellion.

2. According to Part 3, if everything is logical then everything is what?
(a) Wrong.
(b) Religious.
(c) Valued.
(d) Justified.

3. Violence is directed at one and all in the service of what?
(a) An unreasonable offer.
(b) An altrustic idea.
(c) An abstract idea.
(d) An absolute value.

4. In the introduction, rebellion is born of the spectacle of what?
(a) Irrationality.
(b) Love.
(c) Revolution.
(d) Murder.

5. In Part 3, what divides the sovereign?
(a) Government.
(b) Lies.
(c) Factions.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What concept does Nietzsche encounter?

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

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

4. According to the introduction, what is the only creature that refuses to be what it is?

5. Who do the first mythologies describe as an "eternal martyr"?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Camus in Part 3, why do men kill each other?

2. Why must morality be destroyed, according to Camus in Part 2?

3. How does Camus define metaphysical rebellion in Part 2's Introduction?

4. How does nihilism begin to build a temple of Caesar, according to Camus in Part 3?

5. In Part 5, what does Camus say irrational and rational crime equally betray?

6. How does Camus connect murder and suicide in the Introduction?

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

8. According to Camus in Part 4, what must man do in order to create beauty?

9. According to Camus in Part 3, how did the nihilism of the 1860s begin?

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

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