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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Return to Tipasa.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Commonly, what concerns Dostoevsky's heroes?
(a) The morality of suicide.
(b) Whether or not evil people should be permitted to live.
(c) The meaning of life.
(d) Whether or not love and loyalty can endure.

2. 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.

3. What form of travel did Camus use to reach Tipasa?
(a) Train.
(b) Bus.
(c) Car.
(d) Local taxi.

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

5. To whom are the words 'Presumption, regression of progress' attributed?
(a) Hera.
(b) Heracles.
(c) Heraclitus.
(d) Helen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the origin of the nickname 'Clarques'?

2. What is Camus' view concerning the idea that the artist can be detached from his work?

3. For whose victory must we hope?

4. To which school of thought does Husserl belong?

5. How was the god Mercury involved in the Sisyphus story?

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