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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What quality does Camus call 'the fatal evasion'?
(a) Hope.
(b) Mendacity.
(c) Faith.
(d) Despair.
2. What has been the focus of don Juan's existence?
(a) Absurd escapades.
(b) Short-lived joys.
(c) Self-actualization.
(d) Avoiding conflict.
3. What is important about an actor's fame?
(a) Its illusory nature.
(b) Its fleeting nature.
(c) The problem of paparazzi.
(d) Ultimately it brings displeasure.
4. What kind of thought is involved in the absurd?
(a) Creative.
(b) Contradictory.
(c) Lateral.
(d) Rational.
5. How does Camus summarize the actor's art?
(a) As the ability to simulate absolutely.
(b) As the ability to represent faithfully.
(c) As dangerous counterfeit.
(d) As an absurd illusion.
6. What factors ought to underpin discussion of the meaning of life?
(a) Don Quixote and a sense of the absurd.
(b) The rebel and his place in history.
(c) Common sense and perseverence.
(d) Common sense and understanding.
7. Identify the literary device Camus uses in: 'Even men without a gospel have their Mount of Olives'.
(a) The device is an example of transubstantiation.
(b) The device is an example of onomatopoeia.
(c) The device is a metaphor.
(d) The device is personification.
8. To which school of thought does Husserl belong?
(a) Teleology.
(b) Phenomenology.
(c) Geomorphology.
(d) Rationalism.
9. What does Camus see as an almost inevitable companion to passion?
(a) Struggle.
(b) Conception.
(c) Bliss.
(d) Murder.
10. According to Camus, what is tiresome about the human attitude to fate?
(a) It tends to make us inactive.
(b) It is unrealistic.
(c) We take credit for happiness, but blame fate for what crushes us.
(d) It hasn't changed in a thousand years.
11. What is the most harrowing passion of all?
(a) The recognition of absurdity.
(b) The experience of unrequited love.
(c) The facing of mortality.
(d) The recognition that death is inevitable.
12. What is a consequence of love?
(a) The stronger the love, the stronger the absurdity.
(b) It is impossible to assess because every relationship is different.
(c) Marriage and children.
(d) The stronger the love, the less absurd it is.
13. How does Camus classify regret?
(a) As mere sentimentality.
(b) As another form of hope.
(c) As sin.
(d) As being akin to grief, therefore dangerous.
14. What attitude can overcome all fate?
(a) Indolence.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Scorn.
(d) Diigence.
15. In what way is a modern worker similar to Sisyphus?
(a) The worker is a slave like Sisyphus.
(b) The worker spends every day at the same tasks.
(c) The worker is forbidden to innovate.
(d) The tasks they have to do are too hard for them.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the prime interest of everyday man?
2. Which novel deals with a soul in quest of grace?
3. What were the consequences of Sisyphus putting Death in chains?
4. According to Camus, what is the only way Iago can be understood?
5. What is astonishing about eternal values?
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