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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What phrase does Clamence use to describe his fall?
(a) Night when the sky was black and people forgot to smile
(b) Evening when the music stopped and the lights went out.
(c) When everyone turned their backs
(d) Day when he told his wife he did not want to see her again

2. What does Clamence compare Amsterdam's canals to?
(a) The circles of hell
(b) Angels guarding heaven's gate
(c) Medieval castles
(d) Neverending love

3. What was the narrator's former job?
(a) Publisher
(b) Lawyer
(c) Army officer
(d) Pilot

4. What is the full name of the narrator?
(a) Fillipe Flaubert
(b) Jean-Michel Genet
(c) Jean-Baptiste Clamence
(d) Albert Camus

5. Where does Clamence say he is obliged to live?
(a) Above mankind
(b) In Amsterdam
(c) In a homeless shelter
(d) With his parents

6. What does Clamence accuse the Dutch of being?
(a) Humorless
(b) Witless
(c) Arrogant
(d) Ignorant

7. What type of drink do the men have?
(a) Gin
(b) Vodka
(c) Whiskey
(d) Beer

8. Who does Clamence claim he used to act as an advocate for?
(a) The desperate cases
(b) Single mothers
(c) Rich businessmen
(d) His mafia family

9. What did Clamence father do for a living?
(a) A lawyer
(b) A pilot
(c) An officer in the army
(d) A policeman

10. Where does Clamence claim Amsterdam's denizens inhabit?
(a) Ancient Greece
(b) Ancient Egypt
(c) Indonesia
(d) Ancient Rome

11. What does Clamence realize about the woman that deceives him?
(a) She is more intelligent than him
(b) She is nasty
(c) She has a mind of her own
(d) She is angry towards him

12. Why does the narrator leave his companion at the bridge?
(a) He sees a friend
(b) He never crosses bridges
(c) He is in a hurry
(d) He does not want the hotel owner to see him

13. Who wrote Inferno?
(a) Dante
(b) Shakespeare
(c) John Milton
(d) Albert Camus

14. Which of the following subjects does Clamence talk about as they walk?
(a) Socialism
(b) Hitler's death
(c) Communism
(d) Nazi genocide

15. In what book is the circles of hell described?
(a) Paradise Lost
(b) The koran
(c) The bible
(d) Inferno

Short Answer Questions

1. What does society need to stop an argument from stretching into affinity?

2. Which word best describes Clamence?

3. What does the Nazi soldier ask a mother?

4. What does the burglar require from Clamence?

5. From what culture does the deus ex machina come from?

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