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Multiple Choice Questions

1. What binds a man to the absurd?
(a) His sentient nature regarding death.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) His consciousness of it.
(d) His intelligence.

2. Once, how were the condemned spared the sight of the scaffold?
(a) The execution chamber was never lit.
(b) The condemned person was blindfolded.
(c) The condemned person walked backwards, with two priests assisting.
(d) Priests held a little painted screens in front of the condemned person's face.

3. What trees grow above the city?
(a) Mimosa and pittosporums.
(b) Olives and oranges.
(c) Mastics and olives.
(d) Olives and eucalypts.

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

5. In summer, what happens to Algiers?
(a) It becomes deserted.
(b) It is subject to extremes of weather.
(c) Pilgrims arrive and accommodation is stretched.
(d) It fills with eager tourists.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Camus see Sisyphus vis-a-vis his fate?

2. According to Camus, what is the great misfortune from which we all suffer?

3. How is Oedipus' fate announced?

4. Of what does the color of the ruined city's columns remind the writer?

5. To which school of thought does Husserl belong?

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