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

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

3. What would make man feel alienated in the universe?
(a) Falling out with relatives and friends.
(b) The recognition that the universe is infinite.
(c) Realization that all work is futile.
(d) The realization that the world that can no longer be explained comfortably.

4. What is ridiculous about the writer who emulated Peregrinos?
(a) The writer suicided in despair and his relatives benefited hugely from the royalties.
(b) He thought the name would make him a great travel writer, but he failed.
(c) He tried to commit suicide by drowning in the Seine, but could not sink.
(d) The writer suicided so his book would be noticed, but the book was no good.

5. What does Homer have to say about Sisyphus?
(a) That he was the wisest and most prudent of mortals.
(b) That he was an inept fool.
(c) That he had no fear of Pluto.
(d) That his heroic deeds ought not to have been punished.