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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What phenomenon can humans have no experience of?
(a) Mind.
(b) Death.
(c) Karma.
(d) True empathy.

2. What assertions are always false?
(a) That everything is true and that everything is false.
(b) That humans are wise and invincible.
(c) That being is false and nothingness is inevitable.
(d) That everything is invisible and nothing is true.

3. Which philosopher claims that anxiety is at the source of everything?
(a) St. Augustine.
(b) Sartre.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Heidegger.

4. According to Camus, what is the only way Iago can be understood?
(a) In terms of the absurd.
(b) By playing him.
(c) Through an understanding of Venetian military structure.
(d) By thorough analysis of the text.

5. Why does Chestov think we turn to God?
(a) Only to gain favors.
(b) To have the feling that 'underneath are the everlasting arms'.
(c) Because we are afraid.
(d) Only to obtain the impossible.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which art and science have close affinity?

2. What comment of Nietzsche's does Camus make reference to near the beginning of the chapter on Philosophy and Fiction?

3. How are myths given life?

4. What would make man feel alienated in the universe?

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

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