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

2. How does a man define himself?
(a) By his taste in music and literature.
(b) By his politics and personal goals.
(c) By his make-believe as well as his sincere impulses.
(d) By his possessions.

3. Who was Adrienne Lecouvreur?
(a) Voltaire's mistress.
(b) A French philosopher.
(c) A French actress.
(d) A French composer of operetta.

4. What is a characteristic of wisdom?
(a) Being able to supply a rationale for any action.
(b) Living on what one has, not speculating about what one does not have.
(c) Living with faith and integrity and reserving judgement.
(d) Knowing when to take things on trust, as well as when not to.

5. Once, how were the condemned spared the sight of the scaffold?
(a) Priests held a little painted screens in front of the condemned person's face.
(b) The condemned person walked backwards, with two priests assisting.
(c) The condemned person was blindfolded.
(d) The execution chamber was never lit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What embodies 'a drama of the intelligence', according to Camus?

2. Who is the author of Discourses of Edification?

3. According to Camus, what is the only way Iago can be understood?

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

5. What is important about an actor's fame?

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