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

2. What is ridiculous about the writer who emulated Peregrinos?
(a) The writer suicided in despair and his relatives benefited hugely from the royalties.
(b) He thought the name would make him a great travel writer, but he failed.
(c) He tried to commit suicide by drowning in the Seine, but could not sink.
(d) The writer suicided so his book would be noticed, but the book was no good.

3. What embodies 'a drama of the intelligence', according to Camus?
(a) The great scientific discoveries.
(b) A marvel of engineering.
(c) A work of art.
(d) The plays of Shakespeare.

4. To which school of thought does Husserl belong?
(a) Geomorphology.
(b) Teleology.
(c) Phenomenology.
(d) Rationalism.

5. Which art and science have close affinity?
(a) Fiction and physics.
(b) Painting and geometry.
(c) Music and kinesthetics.
(d) Music and mathematics.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What has been the focus of don Juan's existence?

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

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