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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. What is a consequence of love?
(a) The stronger the love, the stronger the absurdity.
(b) It is impossible to assess because every relationship is different.
(c) Marriage and children.
(d) The stronger the love, the less absurd it is.

2. Identify the literary device Camus uses in: 'Even men without a gospel have their Mount of Olives'.
(a) The device is a metaphor.
(b) The device is an example of onomatopoeia.
(c) The device is personification.
(d) The device is an example of transubstantiation.

3. How does Camus summarize the actor's art?
(a) As the ability to represent faithfully.
(b) As dangerous counterfeit.
(c) As an absurd illusion.
(d) As the ability to simulate absolutely.

4. What is ridiculous about the writer who emulated Peregrinos?
(a) The writer suicided so his book would be noticed, but the book was no good.
(b) He tried to commit suicide by drowning in the Seine, but could not sink.
(c) The writer suicided in despair and his relatives benefited hugely from the royalties.
(d) He thought the name would make him a great travel writer, but he failed.

5. What binds a man to the absurd?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) His sentient nature regarding death.
(c) His consciousness of it.
(d) His intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is meant by 'savoir-faire'?

2. What important factor limits human freedom?

3. What would make man feel alienated in the universe?

4. How does Camus classify regret?

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

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