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

2. Commonly, what concerns Dostoevsky's heroes?
(a) Whether or not evil people should be permitted to live.
(b) The morality of suicide.
(c) Whether or not love and loyalty can endure.
(d) The meaning of life.

3. What is Camus' attitude to genius?
(a) It must be nurtured.
(b) It excuses nothing.
(c) It is anti-democratic.
(d) It excuses everything.

4. Identify the literary device Camus uses in: 'Even men without a gospel have their Mount of Olives'.
(a) The device is an example of transubstantiation.
(b) The device is personification.
(c) The device is a metaphor.
(d) The device is an example of onomatopoeia.

5. What comment of Nietzsche's does Camus make reference to near the beginning of the chapter on Philosophy and Fiction?
(a) 'Scattered thoughts can be both orderly and disorderly.'
(b) 'What does not destroy me makes me stronger.'
(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.'

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most harrowing passion of all?

2. Who was Adrienne Lecouvreur?

3. What kind of thought is involved in the absurd?

4. What has Camus to say about Kirilov's reasoning?

5. Why does Chestov think we turn to God?

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