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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 temptation does Camus suggest is hardest to overcome?
(a) The temptation to explain.
(b) The temptation to love.
(c) The temptation to commit suicide.
(d) The temptation to be absurdy sentimental.

2. Who was Adrienne Lecouvreur?
(a) A French composer of operetta.
(b) A French actress.
(c) A French philosopher.
(d) Voltaire's mistress.

3. Who believed that 'to kill God is to become god oneself'?
(a) Both Kirilov and Nietzsche.
(b) Karl Marx.
(c) Both Kirilov and Onegin.
(d) Both Kirkegaard and Camus.

4. What is ridiculous about the writer who emulated Peregrinos?
(a) He tried to commit suicide by drowning in the Seine, but could not sink.
(b) He thought the name would make him a great travel writer, but he failed.
(c) The writer suicided so his book would be noticed, but the book was no good.
(d) The writer suicided in despair and his relatives benefited hugely from the royalties.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What factors ought to underpin discussion of the meaning of life?

2. What phenomenon can humans have no experience of?

3. What argument does Camus dismiss as 'a matter of profound indifference'?

4. What important factor limits human freedom?

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

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