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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What important factor limits human freedom?
(a) Frailty.
(b) His absurd nature.
(c) Time.
(d) Physical movement.

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

3. What word does Camus think is meaningless in Algeria?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Faith.
(c) Death.
(d) Loyalty.

4. How does night descend on the city?
(a) By abrupt degrees.
(b) Suddenly.
(c) Slowly, after a long twilight.
(d) Like a thief.

5. According to Camus, what is an important relationship between The Trial and The Castle?
(a) The Trial presents a problem which The Castle partly solves.
(b) Both novels have a hedonistic main character who denies theism.
(c) The Trial shows us the end of life and The Castle shows us Heaven.
(d) The novels have the same central character and each is based on a play by Shakespeare.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Camus writes '. . . like red beasts', he is using which literary device?

2. What would be a synonym for the phrase 'fecund rumination' (p. 93 of the Penguin Edition)?

3. Which philosopher claims that anxiety is at the source of everything?

4. What are the condemned man's last words?

5. What comment has Camus to make about Malraux?

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