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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Myth of Sisyphus: Absurd Creation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Camus, what is the only way Iago can be understood?
(a) In terms of the absurd.
(b) By thorough analysis of the text.
(c) By playing him.
(d) Through an understanding of Venetian military structure.

2. What technique is employed by philosophical novelists?
(a) They often construct their novels as conversations.
(b) They write with heavy didacticism.
(c) They use imagery rather than argument to convey their ideas.
(d) They use characters as mouthpieces for their philosophy.

3. What is the prime interest of everyday man?
(a) The world and what he can get out of it.
(b) The Darwinian drive to procreate the species.
(c) Himself and his potentialities.
(d) Study and personal growth.

4. What quality does Camus call 'the fatal evasion'?
(a) Hope.
(b) Mendacity.
(c) Despair.
(d) Faith.

5. What kind of thought is involved in the absurd?
(a) Contradictory.
(b) Lateral.
(c) Rational.
(d) Creative.

Short Answer Questions

1. What argument does Camus dismiss as 'a matter of profound indifference'?

2. To which school of thought does Husserl belong?

3. What is the chief question pursued in THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV?

4. In what ways are the thinker and the artist alike?

5. From what does the writer wish to liberate his universe?

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