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Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Camus suggest happens in bad novels?
(a) Thought becomes more important than style.
(b) There is too much emphasis on structure.
(c) There is substantial over-writing, especially with descriptive passages.
(d) Dialogue is poorly written and often inappropriate to character.

2. How does Kafka express the absurd?
(a) Through farce that is close to sentimentality.
(b) Through tragedy.
(c) Through representations of everyday life.
(d) Through the logical.

3. What was Sisyphus' attitude to the gods?
(a) He worshipped them and wanted to be a god, too.
(b) He was insanely jealous of them.
(c) He scorned them.
(d) He viewed them with horror and distrust.

4. Whence had Camus planned to travel in 1939?
(a) England.
(b) France.
(c) Greece.
(d) South Africa.

5. What quality does Camus call 'the fatal evasion'?
(a) Mendacity.
(b) Faith.
(c) Hope.
(d) Despair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which culture/philosophy does Camus dismiss as 'the child of disproportion'?

2. What do Arabs sell for five sous?

3. What is astonishing about eternal values?

4. From what does the writer wish to liberate his universe?

5. In this essay, the Minotaur is used to represent which human experience?

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