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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Helen's Exile.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a characteristic of wisdom?
(a) Knowing when to take things on trust, as well as when not to.
(b) Living on what one has, not speculating about what one does not have.
(c) Being able to supply a rationale for any action.
(d) Living with faith and integrity and reserving judgement.

2. What is the most harrowing passion of all?
(a) The recognition of absurdity.
(b) The facing of mortality.
(c) The recognition that death is inevitable.
(d) The experience of unrequited love.

3. Where did Sakyamuni meditate?
(a) In a dark room.
(b) In the desert.
(c) On top of a holy mountain.
(d) On top of a pole.

4. What temptation does Camus suggest is hardest to overcome?
(a) The temptation to be absurdy sentimental.
(b) The temptation to explain.
(c) The temptation to love.
(d) The temptation to commit suicide.

5. In what ways are the thinker and the artist alike?
(a) Both thinker and artist have commitment and become themselves in their work.
(b) Both have total commitment to success.
(c) Both have a tendency to reject expressionism.
(d) Both have a desire to influence the minds of others.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way are people's minds related?

2. What is the hero's great fear following his transformation?

3. What is the role of Nemesis?

4. What kind of thought is involved in the absurd?

5. What should be the response to subterfuge?

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