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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. Why does Chestov think we turn to God?
(a) Because we are afraid.
(b) Only to obtain the impossible.
(c) To have the feling that 'underneath are the everlasting arms'.
(d) Only to gain favors.

2. What would make man feel alienated in the universe?
(a) The recognition that the universe is infinite.
(b) Falling out with relatives and friends.
(c) Realization that all work is futile.
(d) The realization that the world that can no longer be explained comfortably.

3. What phenomenon can humans have no experience of?
(a) Mind.
(b) True empathy.
(c) Death.
(d) Karma.

4. What is a consequence of love?
(a) The stronger the love, the stronger the absurdity.
(b) Marriage and children.
(c) It is impossible to assess because every relationship is different.
(d) The stronger the love, the less absurd it is.

5. What comment of Nietzsche's does Camus make reference to near the beginning of the chapter on Philosophy and Fiction?
(a) 'We have art in order not to die of the truth.'
(b) 'What does not destroy me makes me stronger.'
(c) 'Midway in life's journey we need to enter a dark wood.'
(d) 'Scattered thoughts can be both orderly and disorderly.'

Short Answer Questions

1. Which famous Frenchwoman was self-reliant?

2. What quality does Camus call 'the fatal evasion'?

3. What would be a synonym for the phrase 'fecund rumination' (p. 93 of the Penguin Edition)?

4. What technique is employed by philosophical novelists?

5. What does Camus suggest happens in bad novels?

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