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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would make man feel alienated in the universe?
(a) Realization that all work is futile.
(b) Falling out with relatives and friends.
(c) The recognition that the universe is infinite.
(d) The realization that the world that can no longer be explained comfortably.

2. What word best describes Camus' attitude to Oran's shops?
(a) Admiring.
(b) Scathing.
(c) Tolerating.
(d) Praising.

3. What information do we have about Sisyphus in the underworld?
(a) That he stole Pluto's wine.
(b) That he fought Orpheus over Eurydice.
(c) That he pursued La Belle Helene.
(d) Nothing.

4. Why is it necessary to read a Kafka work twice?
(a) His prose is very dense.
(b) There is a double possibility of interpretation.
(c) There are complex relationships and a host of characters.
(d) In order to savor the beauty of his writing.

5. What is ridiculous about the writer who emulated Peregrinos?
(a) He tried to commit suicide by drowning in the Seine, but could not sink.
(b) The writer suicided so his book would be noticed, but the book was no good.
(c) He thought the name would make him a great travel writer, but he failed.
(d) The writer suicided in despair and his relatives benefited hugely from the royalties.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is indicated when melancholy arises in the human heart?

2. How was the god Mercury involved in the Sisyphus story?

3. What temptation does Camus suggest is hardest to overcome?

4. From what does the writer wish to liberate his universe?

5. What phenomenon can humans have no experience of?

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