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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What phenomenon can humans have no experience of?
(a) Death.
(b) True empathy.
(c) Mind.
(d) Karma.

2. How are myths given life?
(a) Through their coming true.
(b) Through cinema and stage representation.
(c) Through human imagination.
(d) Through representations on Grecian urns.

3. Which art and science have close affinity?
(a) Music and kinesthetics.
(b) Music and mathematics.
(c) Fiction and physics.
(d) Painting and geometry.

4. What quality does Camus call 'the fatal evasion'?
(a) Hope.
(b) Faith.
(c) Despair.
(d) Mendacity.

5. How does Camus see Sisyphus vis-a-vis his fate?
(a) Sisyphus is crushed by his fate.
(b) Sisyphus is crushed by the rock.
(c) Sisyphus is superior to his fate.
(d) Sisyphus is a victim of playful gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What paradox did Descartes notice in Amsterdam?

2. What is the most harrowing passion of all?

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

4. What makes Algiers different from cities like Paris, Prague and Florence?

5. Of what do the freighters from Norway smell?

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