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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 is the origin of the nickname 'Clarques'?
(a) The French word for a bell.
(b) Clark Gable.
(c) The sound made by seagulls.
(d) The French word for a group.

2. 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.

3. What does Camus see as the one truly serious philosophical problem?
(a) Judging whether or not life is worth living.
(b) Judging the value of religion.
(c) Judging the value of actions.
(d) The problem of human pain and suffering.

4. Why does Chestov think we turn to God?
(a) Only to obtain the impossible.
(b) To have the feling that 'underneath are the everlasting arms'.
(c) Because we are afraid.
(d) Only to gain favors.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are 'the handmaids of justice'?

2. What does Homer have to say about Sisyphus?

3. Where is history now to be found?

4. What is paradoxical about Algiers?

5. What is astonishing about eternal values?

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