View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Helen's Exile.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) It is easier to read than most works of philosophy.
(c) His views have been formed after conducting many interviews.
(d) His attitude to it is more sympathetic.

3. From examining the text, what do we learn about Salamis?
(a) That barbarians lived there.
(b) That is was a sea battle.
(c) That it was a lost text.
(d) That it was a city overrun by barbarians.

4. What would be a synonym for the phrase 'fecund rumination' (p. 93 of the Penguin Edition)?
(a) Lively imagination.
(b) Productive thought.
(c) Vetinarary fees.
(d) Happy return.

5. What are the condemned man's last words?
(a) 'I am innocent!'
(b) 'Like a dog.'
(c) 'It is a far, far better rest that I go to.'
(d) 'Such is life.'

Short Answer Questions

1. What binds a man to the absurd?

2. Of what do the freighters from Norway smell?

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

4. Which culture/philosophy does Camus dismiss as 'the child of disproportion'?

5. Where can Moorish cafes be found?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 252 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample