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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. Who is the author of Discourses of Edification?
(a) Russell.
(b) Camus.
(c) Kierkegaard.
(d) Sartre.

2. What temptation does Camus suggest is hardest to overcome?
(a) The temptation to be absurdy sentimental.
(b) The temptation to love.
(c) The temptation to commit suicide.
(d) The temptation to explain.

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

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

5. What is Camus' attitude to genius?
(a) It is anti-democratic.
(b) It excuses everything.
(c) It must be nurtured.
(d) It excuses nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Camus see as an almost inevitable companion to passion?

2. What is ridiculous about the writer who emulated Peregrinos?

3. Which philosopher claims that anxiety is at the source of everything?

4. Who believed that 'to kill God is to become god oneself'?

5. Why are European cemeteries hideous?

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