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

2. What problem does Nietzsche's philosophy revolve around?
(a) Rebellion.
(b) Revolution.
(c) Atheism.
(d) Nihilism.

3. In Camus' introduction, what does he say "remains an exception"?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Murder.
(c) Passion.
(d) Love.

4. According to Saint-Just in Part 3, what is stronger than tyrants?
(a) Religion.
(b) Power.
(c) Morality.
(d) Revolution.

5. According to Part 3, nihilists believed in nothing but what?
(a) Reason and self-interest.
(b) Reality and self-interest.
(c) Self-interest and religion.
(d) Reason and reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, according to Part 3, pushed nihilism to the "farthest coherent point"?

2. What becomes prophetic with Nietzsche in Part 2?

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

4. According to Part 3, what is limited in scope by its nature?

5. According to Camus in Part 2, a metaphysical rebel is inevitably what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Camus believe art should provide a final perspective on rebellion's content?

3. According to Camus in Part 5, what does the revolution of the twentieth century believe?

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

5. Why did Bielinsky think the noble thing to do was accept the world and its sufferings?

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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