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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 kind of thought is involved in the absurd?
(a) Lateral.
(b) Creative.
(c) Contradictory.
(d) Rational.

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

3. What is astonishing about eternal values?
(a) They transcend cultural factors.
(b) That they exist at all.
(c) The very fact that they exist without reference to God.
(d) They survive wars and other conflicts.

4. What does Camus claim is different about his discussion of suicide?
(a) It is easier to read than most works of philosophy.
(b) He sees it as an individual matter, not purely a social one.
(c) His views have been formed after conducting many interviews.
(d) His attitude to it is more sympathetic.

5. How does Camus classify regret?
(a) As another form of hope.
(b) As sin.
(c) As being akin to grief, therefore dangerous.
(d) As mere sentimentality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the prime interest of everyday man?

2. What is ridiculous about the writer who emulated Peregrinos?

3. What is meant by 'savoir-faire'?

4. What sacrifice does Loyola say God rejoices in?

5. Why does Chestov think we turn to God?

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