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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, if nothing is true or false or good or bad, man's guiding principle is to demonstrate that he is what?
(a) Absurd.
(b) Logical.
(c) Efficient.
(d) Weak.

2. According to Part 3, moral corruption is also what?
(a) Philosophical corruption.
(b) Emotional corruption.
(c) Political corruption.
(d) Religious corruption.

3. In Part 2, Camus states that the great problem of modern times is the discovery that rescuing man from destiny delivers him to what?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Murder.
(c) Rebellion.
(d) Chance.

4. What does Part 3 focus on?
(a) Metaphysical rebellion.
(b) Nihilism.
(c) Historical rebellion.
(d) Atheism.

5. In Part 3, what is a "long and painful struggle in the darkness"?
(a) Religion.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Love.
(d) Politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Camus in Part 2, what is only useful for "adventures of the imagination"?

2. Violence is directed at one and all in the service of what?

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

4. In the Introduction, what does Camus say criminals use as an alibi?

5. In the introduction, what is it always possible to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. According to Camus in Part 4, what is the only revolutionary form of art?

5. How does Camus describe monarchy in a theocratic form in Part 3?

6. What is methodical negation as practiced by Nietzsche?

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

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

9. What does Camus say is the reason why Hitler and his regime could not do away with their enemies?

10. 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?

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