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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Myth of Sisyphus: Absurd Creation.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a consequence of love?
(a) The stronger the love, the stronger the absurdity.
(b) Marriage and children.
(c) The stronger the love, the less absurd it is.
(d) It is impossible to assess because every relationship is different.

3. What would make man feel alienated in the universe?
(a) Realization that all work is futile.
(b) The recognition that the universe is infinite.
(c) Falling out with relatives and friends.
(d) The realization that the world that can no longer be explained comfortably.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Discourses of Edification?

2. What is ridiculous about the writer who emulated Peregrinos?

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

4. Who was Adrienne Lecouvreur?

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

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