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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 is Camus' attitude to genius?
(a) It is anti-democratic.
(b) It must be nurtured.
(c) It excuses nothing.
(d) It excuses everything.

2. What factors ought to underpin discussion of the meaning of life?
(a) Don Quixote and a sense of the absurd.
(b) Common sense and understanding.
(c) The rebel and his place in history.
(d) Common sense and perseverence.

3. What is Camus' view concerning the idea that the artist can be detached from his work?
(a) He believes this is essential in being able to form and utter critique.
(b) He believes the idea warrants closer examination.
(c) He supports the idea.
(d) He believes this idea is outmoded and false.

4. What important factor limits human freedom?
(a) His absurd nature.
(b) Frailty.
(c) Physical movement.
(d) Time.

5. To which school of thought does Husserl belong?
(a) Rationalism.
(b) Phenomenology.
(c) Teleology.
(d) Geomorphology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of thought is involved in the absurd?

2. According to Camus, what is important about the idea that actions have consequences?

3. What is astonishing about eternal values?

4. What comment does Camus make concerning suffering?

5. What does Camus see as the one truly serious philosophical problem?

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