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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the role of Nemesis?
(a) To claim revenge.
(b) To bring soothing sleep.
(c) To restore memory of past sins.
(d) To punish those who exceed their limits.

2. In The Castle, what is significant about the character Amalia?
(a) She is meant to be a representation of Helen of Troy.
(b) She is a dwarf.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She is the only character without hope.

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

4. What common quality can be found in Kafka, Proust and Plotinus?
(a) Nostalgia for a lost paradise.
(b) Rejection of paradise.
(c) Pity for suffering.
(d) Nostalgia for childhood.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the contrast between the historical and artistic spirits, according to Camus?

2. Who believed that 'to kill God is to become god oneself'?

3. What does Camus suggest happens in bad novels?

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

5. What do all struggles need?

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