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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 1, remaining silent gives the appearance that one has no what?
(a) Feelings.
(b) Tongue.
(c) Thoughts.
(d) Opinions.

2. What has to be alive in order to say life is absurd, according to the introduction?
(a) Heart.
(b) Brain.
(c) Conscience.
(d) Soul.

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

4. What was one of the first groups of Russian revolutionaries?
(a) The Rebels.
(b) The Nazis.
(c) The Decemberists.
(d) The Greeks.

5. According to Part 2, what is a "degenerate form of Christianity"?
(a) Hitlerism.
(b) Nihilism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Marxism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Camus in Part 2, what "never has the patience to await complete control of the world?"

3. What belief system accepts suicide as legitimate?

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

5. According to Part 3, Bakunin believed what is the incarnation of crime?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did rebelling against nature equal rebelling against oneself for the ancients?

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

4. What does Camus identify in Part 3 as the conclusions of individualism in revolt?

5. Why is it important to Camus to know whether or not people have a right to murder, as outlined in the Introduction?

6. What is Sade's idea of God that Camus says Sade created for himself?

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

8. What does every act of rebellion express, according to Camus in Part 3's Introduction?

9. According to Camus in Part 5, what happens when rebellion is cut off from its origins?

10. According to Camus in Part 4, what is artistic creation?

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