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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. In the introduction, rebellion is born of the spectacle of what?
(a) Revolution.
(b) Love.
(c) Irrationality.
(d) Murder.
2. According to Camus in Part 2, what is only useful for "adventures of the imagination"?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Romanticism.
(c) Nihilism.
(d) Rebellion.
3. In Part 2, who wanted to "eradicate God from man's mind"?
(a) Sade.
(b) Stirner.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Camus.
4. What was one of the first groups of Russian revolutionaries?
(a) The Nazis.
(b) The Rebels.
(c) The Greeks.
(d) The Decemberists.
5. Violence is directed at one and all in the service of what?
(a) An altrustic idea.
(b) An unreasonable offer.
(c) An absolute value.
(d) An abstract idea.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Camus' introduction, to what is to judge?
2. In Part 2's introduction, the most elementary form of rebellion expresses an aspiration to what?
3. According to this Russian theoretician, who are the greatest fanatics?
4. At the end of Part 2, what does man add to irrational crimes?
5. In Part 3, what divides the sovereign?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why are the crimes of the Hitler regime without precedent in history, according to Camus in Part 3?
2. According to Camus in Part 3, how did the nihilism of the 1860s begin?
3. Why must morality be destroyed, according to Camus in Part 2?
4. Why does Camus think Nietzsche attacked Christianity?
5. How does the revolution Camus references have the same meaning as revolution as referenced in astronomy?
6. Why does Camus believe Sade became the first theoretician of absolute rebellion?
7. What does Camus identify in Part 3 as the conclusions of individualism in revolt?
8. Why is rebellion forced to become revolutionary in the twentieth century?
9. What does Camus say in the Introduction is the "mark of nihilism"?
10. Why did rebelling against nature equal rebelling against oneself for the ancients?
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