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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Minotaur.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What attitude can overcome all fate?
(a) Scorn.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Diigence.
(d) Indolence.

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

3. What did Goethe call for when on his deathbed?
(a) Light.
(b) Peace and quiet.
(c) Water.
(d) 'Eine kleine pause.'

4. When did Sisyphus test his wife's love?
(a) When he returned from his travels.
(b) On their wedding night.
(c) When he was close to death.
(d) As he was leaving on his travels.

5. What assertions are always false?
(a) That everything is true and that everything is false.
(b) That humans are wise and invincible.
(c) That everything is invisible and nothing is true.
(d) That being is false and nothingness is inevitable.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Oedipus' fate announced?

2. According to Camus, what makes the myth of Sisyphus tragic?

3. What common quality can be found in Kafka, Proust and Plotinus?

4. Who believed that 'to kill God is to become god oneself'?

5. How does night descend on the city?

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