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

2. What will happen if people keep silent?
(a) Atrocities will occur.
(b) They will avoid persecution.
(c) They will be deprived of hope.
(d) The printing industry will be compromised.

3. What is Camus' view concerning the idea that the artist can be detached from his work?
(a) He believes this is essential in being able to form and utter critique.
(b) He believes the idea warrants closer examination.
(c) He believes this idea is outmoded and false.
(d) He supports the idea.

4. From what does the writer wish to liberate his universe?
(a) Its supernovae.
(b) Its phantoms.
(c) Its incoherence.
(d) Its absurdity.

5. According to Camus, what is tiresome about the human attitude to fate?
(a) We take credit for happiness, but blame fate for what crushes us.
(b) It is unrealistic.
(c) It tends to make us inactive.
(d) It hasn't changed in a thousand years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For what does Camus criticize Oran?

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

4. For whose victory must we hope?

5. Which philosopher claims that anxiety is at the source of everything?

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