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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. What does Camus suggest happens in bad novels?
(a) There is substantial over-writing, especially with descriptive passages.
(b) Thought becomes more important than style.
(c) Dialogue is poorly written and often inappropriate to character.
(d) There is too much emphasis on structure.

2. Whence had Camus planned to travel in 1939?
(a) Greece.
(b) France.
(c) South Africa.
(d) England.

3. Where can Moorish cafes be found?
(a) In the Kasbah.
(b) Under the clock tower.
(c) On the waterfront.
(d) Behind the mosque.

4. 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) He thought the name would make him a great travel writer, but he failed.
(c) The writer suicided so his book would be noticed, but the book was no good.
(d) The writer suicided in despair and his relatives benefited hugely from the royalties.

5. What restores calm to the fight audience after the near-riot?
(a) A plea from Camus himself.
(b) The arrival of the police.
(c) Pleas from a tearful woman.
(d) The announcement of the main bout.

Short Answer Questions

1. How might the mood of the first three paragraphs of Return to Tipasa be described?

2. What is the alternative title for The Minotaur?

3. What technique is employed by philosophical novelists?

4. What would be a synonym for the phrase 'fecund rumination' (p. 93 of the Penguin Edition)?

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

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