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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what figurative device is: 'These are our nights of Gethsemane'?
(a) It is an example of decorative prose.
(b) It is a metaphor.
(c) It is an illusion.
(d) It is an example of idiomatic phrasing.

2. To which school of thought does Husserl belong?
(a) Geomorphology.
(b) Teleology.
(c) Rationalism.
(d) Phenomenology.

3. How does a man define himself?
(a) By his taste in music and literature.
(b) By his politics and personal goals.
(c) By his possessions.
(d) By his make-believe as well as his sincere impulses.

4. Why did the gods view Sisyphus' punishment as particularly dreadful?
(a) They saw their mistake but were unable to change things.
(b) It involved futile and hopeless labor.
(c) It was unfair relative to his crime.
(d) It involved immense pain.

5. How are myths given life?
(a) Through human imagination.
(b) Through representations on Grecian urns.
(c) Through cinema and stage representation.
(d) Through their coming true.

Short Answer Questions

1. What comment does Camus make concerning suffering?

2. What comment of Nietzsche's does Camus make reference to near the beginning of the chapter on Philosophy and Fiction?

3. Who was Adrienne Lecouvreur?

4. What attitude can overcome all fate?

5. What information do we have about Sisyphus in the underworld?

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