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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Return to Tipasa.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a characteristic of wisdom?
(a) Knowing when to take things on trust, as well as when not to.
(b) Being able to supply a rationale for any action.
(c) Living with faith and integrity and reserving judgement.
(d) Living on what one has, not speculating about what one does not have.

2. What restores calm to the fight audience after the near-riot?
(a) Pleas from a tearful woman.
(b) The arrival of the police.
(c) A plea from Camus himself.
(d) The announcement of the main bout.

3. Who is the hero of Metamorphosis?
(a) Samsa.
(b) Joseph K.
(c) Samson.
(d) Michael K.

4. What quality does Camus call 'the fatal evasion'?
(a) Despair.
(b) Hope.
(c) Mendacity.
(d) Faith.

5. Which city is Oran's rival?
(a) Cairo.
(b) Tripoli.
(c) Algiers.
(d) Casablanca.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which culture/philosophy does Camus dismiss as 'the child of disproportion'?

2. What form of travel did Camus use to reach Tipasa?

3. In The Castle, what is significant about the character Amalia?

4. In what way is the Ancient Greek idea of justice different from the modern European?

5. In which month has the writer returned to Algiers?

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