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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Myth of Sisyphus: Appendix: Hope and the Absurd in the Work of Franz Kafka.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the condemned man's last words?
(a) 'Like a dog.'
(b) 'I am innocent!'
(c) 'Such is life.'
(d) 'It is a far, far better rest that I go to.'

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

3. What was Sisyphus' attitude to the gods?
(a) He viewed them with horror and distrust.
(b) He scorned them.
(c) He was insanely jealous of them.
(d) He worshipped them and wanted to be a god, too.

4. What quality does Camus call 'the fatal evasion'?
(a) Mendacity.
(b) Hope.
(c) Faith.
(d) Despair.

5. How does a man define himself?
(a) By his taste in music and literature.
(b) By his politics and personal goals.
(c) By his possessions.
(d) By his make-believe as well as his sincere impulses.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Camus, what is the most obvious symbol in The Trial?

2. What would be a synonym for the phrase 'fecund rumination' (p. 93 of the Penguin Edition)?

3. How does Camus classify regret?

4. In what ways are the thinker and the artist alike?

5. What technique is employed by philosophical novelists?

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