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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What comment does Camus make about the word 'sin'?
(a) That it refers to an illusion.
(b) That he has never really understood it.
(c) That it is a word used to make people fearful, thus easy to control.
(d) It is something we all should be more aware of.

3. According to Camus, what is tiresome about the human attitude to fate?
(a) We take credit for happiness, but blame fate for what crushes us.
(b) It hasn't changed in a thousand years.
(c) It tends to make us inactive.
(d) It is unrealistic.

4. 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 novels have the same central character and each is based on a play by Shakespeare.
(d) The Trial shows us the end of life and The Castle shows us Heaven.

5. In this essay, the Minotaur is used to represent which human experience?
(a) Passion.
(b) Bewilderment.
(c) Power.
(d) Boredom.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what ways are the thinker and the artist alike?

2. In summer, what happens to Algiers?

3. What word best describes Camus' attitude to Oran's shops?

4. What word does Camus think is meaningless in Algeria?

5. Who liberated Death?

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