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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. What important factor limits human freedom?
(a) Physical movement.
(b) Frailty.
(c) Time.
(d) His absurd nature.

2. Who was Adrienne Lecouvreur?
(a) A French philosopher.
(b) Voltaire's mistress.
(c) A French actress.
(d) A French composer of operetta.

3. What does Camus see as the one truly serious philosophical problem?
(a) Judging the value of religion.
(b) Judging the value of actions.
(c) The problem of human pain and suffering.
(d) Judging whether or not life is worth living.

4. In what way are people's minds related?
(a) Through common contradictions.
(b) Through common purpose.
(c) Through common beliefs and visions.
(d) Through the collective unconscious.

5. Why is it necessary to read a Kafka work twice?
(a) In order to savor the beauty of his writing.
(b) There are complex relationships and a host of characters.
(c) His prose is very dense.
(d) There is a double possibility of interpretation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is astonishing about eternal values?

3. According to Camus, what is tiresome about the human attitude to fate?

4. What has Camus to say about 'great revolutions'?

5. What embodies 'a drama of the intelligence', according to Camus?

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