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

3. According to Camus, what is the most obvious symbol in The Trial?
(a) A knife.
(b) Shame.
(c) Naturalness.
(d) An insect.

4. What temptation does Camus suggest is hardest to overcome?
(a) The temptation to explain.
(b) The temptation to commit suicide.
(c) The temptation to be absurdy sentimental.
(d) The temptation to love.

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

6. What quality does Camus call 'the fatal evasion'?
(a) Mendacity.
(b) Hope.
(c) Faith.
(d) Despair.

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

8. 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 supports the idea.
(c) He believes this idea is outmoded and false.
(d) He believes the idea warrants closer examination.

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

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

11. Who is the author of Discourses of Edification?
(a) Sartre.
(b) Kierkegaard.
(c) Russell.
(d) Camus.

12. What should be the response to subterfuge?
(a) We should turn away from it.
(b) We should admire it for its inventiveness.
(c) We should turn to it in hope.
(d) We should be suspicious of it.

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

14. What is astonishing about eternal values?
(a) That they exist at all.
(b) They survive wars and other conflicts.
(c) They transcend cultural factors.
(d) The very fact that they exist without reference to God.

15. Which art and science have close affinity?
(a) Fiction and physics.
(b) Music and kinesthetics.
(c) Music and mathematics.
(d) Painting and geometry.