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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 does Camus claim is different about his discussion of suicide?
(a) He sees it as an individual matter, not purely a social one.
(b) His views have been formed after conducting many interviews.
(c) It is easier to read than most works of philosophy.
(d) His attitude to it is more sympathetic.

2. Commonly, what concerns Dostoevsky's heroes?
(a) Whether or not love and loyalty can endure.
(b) The meaning of life.
(c) Whether or not evil people should be permitted to live.
(d) The morality of suicide.

3. Why are European cemeteries hideous?
(a) They are not maintained properly.
(b) They are badly planned.
(c) Only poor art-work and sculpture is used.
(d) People beautify what they love, not what they hate--and they hate death.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does a man define himself?

2. Why does Chestov think we turn to God?

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

4. What temptation does Camus suggest is hardest to overcome?

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

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