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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Minotaur.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is meant by 'savoir-faire'?
(a) Knowing what to do, or having tact.
(b) The ability to savor good food.
(c) A good person.
(d) Gentle behavior.

2. According to Camus, what is an important relationship between The Trial and The Castle?
(a) The novels have the same central character and each is based on a play by Shakespeare.
(b) The Trial shows us the end of life and The Castle shows us Heaven.
(c) The Trial presents a problem which The Castle partly solves.
(d) Both novels have a hedonistic main character who denies theism.

3. What comment of Nietzsche's does Camus make reference to near the beginning of the chapter on Philosophy and Fiction?
(a) 'What does not destroy me makes me stronger.'
(b) 'We have art in order not to die of the truth.'
(c) 'Midway in life's journey we need to enter a dark wood.'
(d) 'Scattered thoughts can be both orderly and disorderly.'

4. What does Camus claim are the two essential pleasures of local youth?
(a) Going to the movies with shiny shoes.
(b) Binge drinking and snappy dressing.
(c) Getting their shoes shined and attracting girls.
(d) Having their shoes shined, then displaying these on the boulevard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Camus think is meaningless in Algeria?

2. What comment has Camus to make about Malraux?

3. To which school of thought does Husserl belong?

4. In what ways are the thinker and the artist alike?

5. What is a consequence of love?

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