2. What comment has Camus to make about Malraux?
(a) His thought is inspirational and pure.
(b) His thought is bracing.
(c) His thought is confusingly expressed.
(d) He is an unappreciated genius.

3. How does Kafka express the absurd?
(a) Through farce that is close to sentimentality.
(b) Through representations of everyday life.
(c) Through the logical.
(d) Through tragedy.

4. Who believed that 'to kill God is to become god oneself'?
(a) Both Kirilov and Nietzsche.
(b) Both Kirilov and Onegin.
(c) Both Kirkegaard and Camus.
(d) Karl Marx.

5. How does Camus see Sisyphus vis-a-vis his fate?
(a) Sisyphus is a victim of playful gods.
(b) Sisyphus is crushed by his fate.
(c) Sisyphus is superior to his fate.
(d) Sisyphus is crushed by the rock.

6. What was Sisyphus' attitude to the gods?
(a) He worshipped them and wanted to be a god, too.
(b) He viewed them with horror and distrust.
(c) He scorned them.
(d) He was insanely jealous of them.

7. How does Camus summarize the actor's art?
(a) As the ability to represent faithfully.
(b) As the ability to simulate absolutely.
(c) As an absurd illusion.
(d) As dangerous counterfeit.

8. Identify the literary device Camus uses in: 'Even men without a gospel have their Mount of Olives'.
(a) The device is an example of onomatopoeia.
(b) The device is a metaphor.
(c) The device is personification.
(d) The device is an example of transubstantiation.

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

10. What quality does Camus call 'the fatal evasion'?
(a) Despair.
(b) Faith.
(c) Hope.
(d) Mendacity.

11. Why is it necessary to read a Kafka work twice?
(a) His prose is very dense.
(b) There is a double possibility of interpretation.
(c) There are complex relationships and a host of characters.
(d) In order to savor the beauty of his writing.

12. What has Camus to say about 'great revolutions'?
(a) They are always metaphysical.
(b) They never last.
(c) They are always metatextual.
(d) They take us into a sure future.

13. Of what figurative device is: 'These are our nights of Gethsemane'?
(a) It is an illusion.
(b) It is a metaphor.
(c) It is an example of idiomatic phrasing.
(d) It is an example of decorative prose.

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

15. Why are European cemeteries hideous?
(a) They are badly planned.
(b) People beautify what they love, not what they hate--and they hate death.
(c) Only poor art-work and sculpture is used.
(d) They are not maintained properly.