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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Myth of Sisyphus: Appendix: Hope and the Absurd in the Work of Franz Kafka.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the hero of Metamorphosis?
(a) Michael K.
(b) Samsa.
(c) Samson.
(d) Joseph K.

3. What binds a man to the absurd?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) His consciousness of it.
(c) His sentient nature regarding death.
(d) His intelligence.

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

5. In what way are people's minds related?
(a) Through common purpose.
(b) Through common contradictions.
(c) Through the collective unconscious.
(d) Through common beliefs and visions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Commonly, what concerns Dostoevsky's heroes?

2. How does Camus classify regret?

3. When did Sisyphus test his wife's love?

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

5. What technique is employed by philosophical novelists?

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