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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do jailers do to a person in the spitting cell?
(a) Pull their hair
(b) Throw hot coffee in their face
(c) Gouge their eyes
(d) Spit on them

2. What does Clamence promise to do at the end of chapter 4?
(a) To seek help
(b) To go home
(c) To define a judge penitent
(d) To take the auditor to a bordello

3. What country does Clamence talk about in this chapter?
(a) England
(b) Sweden
(c) Norway
(d) Greece

4. Where does Clamence see the dog?
(a) In a bus
(b) On a metro platform
(c) In his hotel
(d) On the metro

5. What is Clamence too self obsessed to do?
(a) Work
(b) Kill himself
(c) Marry
(d) Murder

6. Where is the camp Clamence is sent to?
(a) Tripoli
(b) Napoli
(c) Transvaal
(d) Cape Town

7. Why is water so important in the camp?
(a) It is needed for everything
(b) It is the only thing to drink
(c) There is a shortage
(d) It is a dry climate

8. Who does Clament fantasize assaulting?
(a) The auditor
(b) Blind people
(c) His mother
(d) His lover

9. Who does the dog go to instead?
(a) A young German soldier
(b) Its owner
(c) Its mother
(d) A young orphan

10. What is Clamence's most important duty?
(a) To find women
(b) To forgive sinners
(c) To bribe the guards
(d) To manage water rations

11. What happens to a person's body when they are in the little ease?
(a) It sheds its skin
(b) It loosens
(c) It stiffens
(d) It snaps in half

12. What brings an end to Clamence's brief happiness?
(a) The death of his mother
(b) Losing his job
(c) Liver disease
(d) Marriage

13. What does Clamence say he has a lack of?
(a) Women
(b) Feelings
(c) Friends
(d) Ego

14. Who does the girl want to punish when she kills herself?
(a) Her brother
(b) Her father
(c) Her boyfriend
(d) Her mother

15. What does the young man want the prison pope to be elected for?
(a) His skill at ping pong
(b) His height
(c) His failings
(d) His ugliness

Short Answer Questions

1. In what chapter did Clamence first mention the little ease?

2. Who does Clamence offer as pope?

3. Who does the young man profess hatred for?

4. Who painted the painting?

5. What is the dark speck in reality?

(see the answer keys)

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