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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is astonishing about eternal values?
(a) They transcend cultural factors.
(b) They survive wars and other conflicts.
(c) The very fact that they exist without reference to God.
(d) That they exist at all.

2. 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) In order to savor the beauty of his writing.
(d) There are complex relationships and a host of characters.

3. In summer, what happens to Algiers?
(a) It is subject to extremes of weather.
(b) It becomes deserted.
(c) Pilgrims arrive and accommodation is stretched.
(d) It fills with eager tourists.

4. How does Camus classify Oran?
(a) As a desert.
(b) As an oasis.
(c) As a center of industry.
(d) As a center of culture.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Camus see as the one truly serious philosophical problem?

2. On which other society does the youth of Oran model its behavior?

3. What did Goethe call for when on his deathbed?

4. Why are European cemeteries hideous?

5. At Belcourt, how have marriages been arranged?

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