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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 should be the response to subterfuge?
(a) We should admire it for its inventiveness.
(b) We should turn away from it.
(c) We should turn to it in hope.
(d) We should be suspicious of it.

2. In what ways are the thinker and the artist alike?
(a) Both have a tendency to reject expressionism.
(b) Both have a desire to influence the minds of others.
(c) Both have total commitment to success.
(d) Both thinker and artist have commitment and become themselves in their work.

3. Camus mentions the parliament of birds in which literary source?
(a) English.
(b) Russian.
(c) Hindu.
(d) Arabian.

4. With God dead, what remains?
(a) History and power.
(b) Chaos and warfare.
(c) An erratic universe.
(d) Power.

5. What makes Algiers different from cities like Paris, Prague and Florence?
(a) Its buildings are predominantly of red granite.
(b) It has been settled since the ninth century B.C..
(c) It is not walled, but open.
(d) It is protected by levees and walls.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which city is Oran's rival?

2. What comment does Camus make about the word 'sin'?

3. What is Camus' view concerning the idea that the artist can be detached from his work?

4. What status as a philosopher does Camus accord Plato?

5. What comment has Camus to make about Malraux?

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