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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 factors ought to underpin discussion of the meaning of life?
(a) Common sense and understanding.
(b) Common sense and perseverence.
(c) The rebel and his place in history.
(d) Don Quixote and a sense of the absurd.

2. How does Camus summarize the actor's art?
(a) As an absurd illusion.
(b) As the ability to simulate absolutely.
(c) As the ability to represent faithfully.
(d) As dangerous counterfeit.

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

4. What comment of Nietzsche's does Camus make reference to near the beginning of the chapter on Philosophy and Fiction?
(a) 'What does not destroy me makes me stronger.'
(b) 'Scattered thoughts can be both orderly and disorderly.'
(c) 'Midway in life's journey we need to enter a dark wood.'
(d) 'We have art in order not to die of the truth.'

5. What is the chief question pursued in THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV?
(a) Sibling rivalry in the Russian middle class.
(b) The validity of the Russian church.
(c) Conflict over the emancipation of the Russian serfs.
(d) The existence of God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Camus see as an almost inevitable companion to passion?

2. What binds a man to the absurd?

3. How does a man define himself?

4. What does Camus claim is different about his discussion of suicide?

5. What assertions are always false?

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