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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. How does Camus summarize the actor's art?
(a) As the ability to simulate absolutely.
(b) As dangerous counterfeit.
(c) As an absurd illusion.
(d) As the ability to represent faithfully.

2. Of what figurative device is: 'These are our nights of Gethsemane'?
(a) It is an illusion.
(b) It is an example of idiomatic phrasing.
(c) It is a metaphor.
(d) It is an example of decorative prose.

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

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

5. What does Camus see as the one truly serious philosophical problem?
(a) Judging the value of actions.
(b) Judging the value of religion.
(c) The problem of human pain and suffering.
(d) Judging whether or not life is worth living.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which novel deals with a soul in quest of grace?

2. What is the main idea in the final paragraph of the essay 'The Myth of Sisyphus'?

3. What sacrifice does Loyola say God rejoices in?

4. What attitude can overcome all fate?

5. What has been the focus of don Juan's existence?

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