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Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Camus find Sunday mornings in Algiers?
(a) Sinister.
(b) Boring.
(c) Grand.
(d) Peaceful.

2. What is the legendary Faust remembered for?
(a) Selling his soul to the Devil.
(b) Living for a very long time.
(c) As an alchemist.
(d) Killing his mistress.

3. What should be the response to subterfuge?
(a) We should turn away from it.
(b) We should turn to it in hope.
(c) We should admire it for its inventiveness.
(d) We should be suspicious of it.

4. What type of music is played before the fight?
(a) Italian opera.
(b) Ballads from the 1930s.
(c) European techno music.
(d) Sentimental Italian music.

5. What is the prime interest of everyday man?
(a) Study and personal growth.
(b) The Darwinian drive to procreate the species.
(c) The world and what he can get out of it.
(d) Himself and his potentialities.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Camus, what have 'the smell of the office clinging to them'?

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

3. What phenomenon can humans have no experience of?

4. What comment of Nietzsche's does Camus make reference to near the beginning of the chapter on Philosophy and Fiction?

5. What temptation does Camus suggest is hardest to overcome?

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