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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Artist and His Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the legendary Faust remembered for?
(a) As an alchemist.
(b) Killing his mistress.
(c) Selling his soul to the Devil.
(d) Living for a very long time.

2. What symbol does Camus associate with oppression?
(a) Barbed wire.
(b) The Berlin Wall.
(c) A trident.
(d) The Iron Curtain.

3. Who are 'the handmaids of justice'?
(a) The Amazons.
(b) The Pleiades.
(c) The Nereides.
(d) The Erinyes.

4. What factors ought to underpin discussion of the meaning of life?
(a) Don Quixote and a sense of the absurd.
(b) Common sense and understanding.
(c) Common sense and perseverence.
(d) The rebel and his place in history.

5. What is the hero's great fear following his transformation?
(a) His boss' anger.
(b) That his girlfriend will find out.
(c) His father's anger.
(d) His mother's tears.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Arabs sell for five sous?

2. Who calls out 'Want a ride, sister?' to pretty girls?

3. What assertions are always false?

4. Once, how were the condemned spared the sight of the scaffold?

5. What 'two worlds' does Kafka present in his novels?

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