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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Myth of Sisyphus: The Absurd Man.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most harrowing passion of all?
(a) The recognition of absurdity.
(b) The facing of mortality.
(c) The experience of unrequited love.
(d) The recognition that death is inevitable.

2. What sacrifice does Loyola say God rejoices in?
(a) The sacrifice of celibacy.
(b) The sacrifice of the intellect.
(c) The sacrifice of hope.
(d) The sacrifice of humility?

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

4. Why are European cemeteries hideous?
(a) They are badly planned.
(b) People beautify what they love, not what they hate--and they hate death.
(c) Only poor art-work and sculpture is used.
(d) They are not maintained properly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Camus classify regret?

2. What phenomenon can humans have no experience of?

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

4. What does Camus see as the one truly serious philosophical problem?

5. What is important about an actor's fame?

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