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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Introduction and Sections 1, 2 and 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has to be alive in order to say life is absurd, according to the introduction?
(a) Conscience.
(b) Soul.
(c) Heart.
(d) Brain.

2. Who, according to Camus in Part 2, committed the first act of rebellion?
(a) Cain.
(b) God.
(c) Abel.
(d) Satan.

3. What is the only evidence given to Camus within the terms of the absurdist experience?
(a) Revolution.
(b) Power.
(c) Rebellion.
(d) Love.

4. As stated in Camus' introduction, "In an age of ideologies, we must examine our position in relation to" what?
(a) Murder.
(b) Love.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Crime.

5. What does Camus believe is as "universal as science"?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Logic.
(c) Crime.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Part 1, remaining silent gives the appearance that one has no what?

2. In the introduction, if nothing is true or false or good or bad, man's guiding principle is to demonstrate that he is what?

3. According to Camus, the rebel does what more than he denies?

4. According to Camus in Part 2, what "never has the patience to await complete control of the world?"

5. In the introduction, rebellion is born of the spectacle of what?

(see the answer key)

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