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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 status does Camus give Sisyphus?
(a) The absurd hero.
(b) The trickster.
(c) The absurd prince.
(d) The fool.

2. What is important about an actor's fame?
(a) The problem of paparazzi.
(b) Ultimately it brings displeasure.
(c) Its illusory nature.
(d) Its fleeting nature.

3. Who is the author of Discourses of Edification?
(a) Camus.
(b) Sartre.
(c) Russell.
(d) Kierkegaard.

4. What binds a man to the absurd?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) His consciousness of it.
(c) His sentient nature regarding death.
(d) His intelligence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Camus classify regret?

2. What has Camus to say about 'great revolutions'?

3. What quality does Camus call 'the fatal evasion'?

4. What does Camus see as the one truly serious philosophical problem?

5. Who liberated Death?

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