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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. How does Camus classify regret?
(a) As being akin to grief, therefore dangerous.
(b) As sin.
(c) As another form of hope.
(d) As mere sentimentality.

2. How is Oedipus' fate announced?
(a) Supernaturally.
(b) As a result of gossip.
(c) By means of a letter device.
(d) Superbly.

3. Who was Adrienne Lecouvreur?
(a) A French actress.
(b) A French philosopher.
(c) A French composer of operetta.
(d) Voltaire's mistress.

4. What would be a synonym for the phrase 'fecund rumination' (p. 93 of the Penguin Edition)?
(a) Productive thought.
(b) Lively imagination.
(c) Vetinarary fees.
(d) Happy return.

5. What has been the focus of don Juan's existence?
(a) Absurd escapades.
(b) Self-actualization.
(c) Short-lived joys.
(d) Avoiding conflict.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way are people's minds related?

2. According to Camus, what is tiresome about the human attitude to fate?

3. Who liberated Death?

4. What argument does Camus dismiss as 'a matter of profound indifference'?

5. Why did the gods view Sisyphus' punishment as particularly dreadful?

Short Essay Questions

1. In an absurd universe, are all actions permitted?

2. In what ways is Sisyphus a rebel?

3. According to Camus, what is the one serious problem for philosophy?

4. Why does Camus claim that there can be no experience of death?

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

6. According to the quotation from Nietzsche, what vital function is performed by art?

7. How does Camus differ from many other commentators when considering the work of Kafka?

8. What, for humanity, are the consequences of living in a world stripped of illusion?

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

10. How did Sisyphus attempt to test his wife's love?

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