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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What phenomenon can humans have no experience of?
(a) Mind.
(b) Death.
(c) Karma.
(d) True empathy.

2. In what way are people's minds related?
(a) Through the collective unconscious.
(b) Through common purpose.
(c) Through common beliefs and visions.
(d) Through common contradictions.

3. What is meant by 'savoir-faire'?
(a) Knowing what to do, or having tact.
(b) A good person.
(c) Gentle behavior.
(d) The ability to savor good food.

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

5. What is important about an actor's fame?
(a) Ultimately it brings displeasure.
(b) Its fleeting nature.
(c) The problem of paparazzi.
(d) Its illusory nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is astonishing about eternal values?

2. What kind of thought is involved in the absurd?

3. What were the consequences of Sisyphus putting Death in chains?

4. What status does Camus give Sisyphus?

5. In what ways are the thinker and the artist alike?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is The Trial about?

2. What were Sisyphus's sins against the gods, for which he was punished?

3. What technique of Kafka's does Camus posit as the reason for the unity in that writer's work?

4. How does Camus describe the Church's treatment of heretics?

5. How does Camus account for the promiscuity of don Juan?

6. What does Camus say is tiresome about the human heart (p. 115 of the Penguin edition)?

7. What does humanity need to do in order to understand the world?

8. What is Camus' basic criticism of phenomenology?

9. In mentioning the Diary (p. 100 of the Penguin edition), to what does Camus draw attention?

10. Why is the fame of a writer likely to endure and that of an actor not to do so?

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