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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Camus say is the homage the "malignant recluse finally pays to the brotherhood of man" in Part 3?
(a) Silence.
(b) Communism.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Terror.

2. What era followed the metaphysical and theological eras?
(a) Communist.
(b) Marxist.
(c) Nihilist.
(d) Positivist.

3. According to Camus in Part 5, what is the only way a rebel can reconcile himself with committing murder?
(a) Going to court.
(b) Writing an apology.
(c) Accepting his own death.
(d) Murdering again.

4. According to Camus in Part 4, the world of Proust is nothing but what?
(a) Memory.
(b) Reality.
(c) Unity.
(d) Truth.

5. In Part 4, Rousseau denounced a corruption of what in art by society?
(a) Nurture.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Nature.
(d) Beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What writer does Camus say the French Revolution "gave birth" to?

2. In Part 3, Camus states Junger thought it was better to be criminal than what?

3. According to Part 3, what does honor lay in?

4. In Part 3, people who despair about everything can only be provided with faith by what?

5. In the hour of Hitler's defeat, he believed himself betrayed by who?

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