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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Myth of Sisyphus: Absurd Creation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Camus' view concerning the idea that the artist can be detached from his work?
(a) He believes this is essential in being able to form and utter critique.
(b) He believes the idea warrants closer examination.
(c) He believes this idea is outmoded and false.
(d) He supports the idea.

2. What kind of thought is involved in the absurd?
(a) Rational.
(b) Creative.
(c) Contradictory.
(d) Lateral.

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

4. Who believed that 'to kill God is to become god oneself'?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) Both Kirkegaard and Camus.
(c) Both Kirilov and Onegin.
(d) Both Kirilov and Nietzsche.

5. What is Camus' attitude to genius?
(a) It must be nurtured.
(b) It is anti-democratic.
(c) It excuses everything.
(d) It excuses nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which famous Frenchwoman was self-reliant?

2. What is ridiculous about the writer who emulated Peregrinos?

3. What argument does Camus dismiss as 'a matter of profound indifference'?

4. What assertions are always false?

5. What is meant by 'savoir-faire'?

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