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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Myth of Sisyphus: Appendix: Hope and the Absurd in the Work of Franz Kafka.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way is a modern worker similar to Sisyphus?
(a) The tasks they have to do are too hard for them.
(b) The worker is a slave like Sisyphus.
(c) The worker is forbidden to innovate.
(d) The worker spends every day at the same tasks.

2. How does Kafka express the absurd?
(a) Through representations of everyday life.
(b) Through tragedy.
(c) Through farce that is close to sentimentality.
(d) Through the logical.

3. What argument does Camus dismiss as 'a matter of profound indifference'?
(a) Whether or not the earth revolves around the sun.
(b) The absurd dilemma.
(c) Whether or not the Bible is literally true.
(d) The ontological argument.

4. What comment does Camus make concerning suffering?
(a) It is useless.
(b) It must be endured.
(c) It is ennobling.
(d) It should be avoided.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is employed by philosophical novelists?

2. What is the main idea in the final paragraph of the essay 'The Myth of Sisyphus'?

3. What was Sisyphus' attitude to the gods?

4. When did Sisyphus test his wife's love?

5. According to Camus, what is important about the idea that actions have consequences?

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