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

3. What comment has Camus to make about Malraux?
(a) His thought is bracing.
(b) His thought is inspirational and pure.
(c) His thought is confusingly expressed.
(d) He is an unappreciated genius.

4. What is the main idea in the final paragraph of the essay 'The Myth of Sisyphus'?
(a) No matter how hard we struggle, the gods will always win.
(b) We can't be free unless the gods allow it.
(c) All we can do is struggle.
(d) The struggle for achievement is enough: it is its own reward.

5. What is the chief question pursued in THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV?
(a) The validity of the Russian church.
(b) Conflict over the emancipation of the Russian serfs.
(c) The existence of God.
(d) Sibling rivalry in the Russian middle class.

6. Who liberated Death?
(a) The messenger of the gods.
(b) Persephone.
(c) Eurydice.
(d) The god of war.

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

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

9. What argument does Camus dismiss as 'a matter of profound indifference'?
(a) Whether or not the earth revolves around the sun.
(b) The absurd dilemma.
(c) The ontological argument.
(d) Whether or not the Bible is literally true.

10. According to Camus, what is important about the idea that actions have consequences?
(a) It is the basis of the legal system in Muslim countries.
(b) It is a basic principle in what is known as 'brain-washing'.
(c) It is the principle behind all systems of morality.
(d) It is a basic principle of child rearing.

11. What does Homer have to say about Sisyphus?
(a) That he was the wisest and most prudent of mortals.
(b) That he was an inept fool.
(c) That he had no fear of Pluto.
(d) That his heroic deeds ought not to have been punished.

12. What kind of thought is involved in the absurd?
(a) Lateral.
(b) Contradictory.
(c) Creative.
(d) Rational.

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

14. What status does Camus give Sisyphus?
(a) The absurd hero.
(b) The trickster.
(c) The absurd prince.
(d) The fool.

15. What technique is employed by philosophical novelists?
(a) They often construct their novels as conversations.
(b) They use imagery rather than argument to convey their ideas.
(c) They use characters as mouthpieces for their philosophy.
(d) They write with heavy didacticism.