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 common quality can be found in Kafka, Proust and Plotinus?
(a) Nostalgia for a lost paradise.
(b) Pity for suffering.
(c) Nostalgia for childhood.
(d) Rejection of paradise.

2. What does Camus suggest happens in bad novels?
(a) There is too much emphasis on structure.
(b) Thought becomes more important than style.
(c) There is substantial over-writing, especially with descriptive passages.
(d) Dialogue is poorly written and often inappropriate to character.

3. What is Camus' view concerning the idea that the artist can be detached from his work?
(a) He believes this is essential in being able to form and utter critique.
(b) He supports the idea.
(c) He believes the idea warrants closer examination.
(d) He believes this idea is outmoded and false.

4. According to Camus, what is tiresome about the human attitude to fate?
(a) It hasn't changed in a thousand years.
(b) We take credit for happiness, but blame fate for what crushes us.
(c) It is unrealistic.
(d) It tends to make us inactive.

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