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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Artist and His Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Camus describes it, the impression one has of the setting for the boxing boxing match is _______________.
(a) Chaotic.
(b) Squalid and crowded.
(c) Exciting and dangerous.
(d) Well-organized.

2. In what way is a modern worker similar to Sisyphus?
(a) The tasks they have to do are too hard for them.
(b) The worker is forbidden to innovate.
(c) The worker spends every day at the same tasks.
(d) The worker is a slave like Sisyphus.

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

4. What type of music is played before the fight?
(a) Ballads from the 1930s.
(b) Italian opera.
(c) Sentimental Italian music.
(d) European techno music.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Camus claim is different about his discussion of suicide?

2. What does Camus suggest happens in bad novels?

3. Which famous Frenchwoman was self-reliant?

4. What comment does Camus make about Greek thought?

5. In this essay, the Minotaur is used to represent which human experience?

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