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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summer in Algiers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Adrienne Lecouvreur?
(a) Voltaire's mistress.
(b) A French philosopher.
(c) A French composer of operetta.
(d) A French actress.

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

3. Where can Moorish cafes be found?
(a) Under the clock tower.
(b) Behind the mosque.
(c) In the Kasbah.
(d) On the waterfront.

4. What is the prime interest of everyday man?
(a) The Darwinian drive to procreate the species.
(b) The world and what he can get out of it.
(c) Himself and his potentialities.
(d) Study and personal growth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main idea in the final paragraph of the essay 'The Myth of Sisyphus'?

2. How does night descend on the city?

3. What embodies 'a drama of the intelligence', according to Camus?

4. What attitude can overcome all fate?

5. Identify the literary device Camus uses in: 'Even men without a gospel have their Mount of Olives'.

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