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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Clamence tell his companion to take advantage of?
(a) The free hotel breakfast
(b) His company
(c) The local prostitutes
(d) The lack of security in the hotel

2. What does the Nazi soldier ask a mother?
(a) If she wants to kill her child herself
(b) If she has a cigarette
(c) Which of her sons should be executed
(d) If she loves her sons

3. What two passions do Parisians have?
(a) Religion and education
(b) Coffee and crepes
(c) Wine and cheese
(d) Ideas and fornication

4. What are the Sadducee?
(a) A Muslim sect
(b) A Jewish sect
(c) A Christian sect
(d) A Sikh sect

5. What does Clamence claim his occupation is?
(a) Writer
(b) Doctor
(c) Judge penitent
(d) Lawyer

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator leave his companion at the bridge?

2. What city are the two men in?

3. What does Clamence refer to his new companion as?

4. What two traitors does Clamence mention in this chapter?

5. What nationality are the two men?

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