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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. What binds a man to the absurd?
(a) His consciousness of it.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) His sentient nature regarding death.
(d) His intelligence.

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

3. What does Camus see as an almost inevitable companion to passion?
(a) Conception.
(b) Murder.
(c) Bliss.
(d) Struggle.

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

5. Which famous Frenchwoman was self-reliant?
(a) Madame La Guillotine.
(b) Violetta Valery
(c) Madame Roland.
(d) Madame Bovary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who believed that 'to kill God is to become god oneself'?

2. What does Camus claim is different about his discussion of suicide?

3. What is the legendary Faust remembered for?

4. What is the most harrowing passion of all?

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

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