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Quiz: The Minotaur to Helen's Exile

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

Multiple Choice Questions

Directions: Circle the correct answer.

1. What does Camus claim are the two essential pleasures of local youth?
a) Having their shoes shined, then displaying these on the boulevard.
b) Getting their shoes shined and attracting girls.
c) Going to the movies with shiny shoes.
d) Binge drinking and snappy dressing.

2. As Camus describes it, the impression one has of the setting for the boxing boxing match is _______________.
a) Well-organized.
b) Exciting and dangerous.
c) Squalid and crowded.
d) Chaotic.

3. When Camus writes '. . . like red beasts', he is using which literary device?
a) Idiom.
b) Alliteration.
c) Personification.
d) Simile.

4. In this essay, the Minotaur is used to represent which human experience? (read more)