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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 sacrifice does Loyola say God rejoices in?
(a) The sacrifice of the intellect.
(b) The sacrifice of celibacy.
(c) The sacrifice of hope.
(d) The sacrifice of humility?

2. What technique is employed by philosophical novelists?
(a) They use imagery rather than argument to convey their ideas.
(b) They use characters as mouthpieces for their philosophy.
(c) They often construct their novels as conversations.
(d) They write with heavy didacticism.

3. What temptation does Camus suggest is hardest to overcome?
(a) The temptation to love.
(b) The temptation to commit suicide.
(c) The temptation to explain.
(d) The temptation to be absurdy sentimental.

4. Why does Chestov think we turn to God?
(a) Because we are afraid.
(b) Only to obtain the impossible.
(c) To have the feling that 'underneath are the everlasting arms'.
(d) Only to gain favors.

5. Who is the author of Discourses of Edification?
(a) Russell.
(b) Kierkegaard.
(c) Sartre.
(d) Camus.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a consequence of love?

3. What would make man feel alienated in the universe?

4. What factors ought to underpin discussion of the meaning of life?

5. Commonly, what concerns Dostoevsky's heroes?

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