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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Clamence want the auditor's sign to summarize?

2. How does Clamence show his power when it comes to women?

3. What is the name of the bar?

4. What does Clamence say he is doomed to?

5. Which of the following terms does Clamence use to describe the auditor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Clamence show himself up to be in this chapter?

2. In what way does Clamence show himself to be a narcissist?

3. How does the narrator describe the bartender?

4. What is the significance of Clamence calling himself Jean-Baptiste?

5. In what way does the author show that Clamence is not as confident as he claims?

6. Describe the Mexico City bar.

7. Why does Clamence say it is easier to be closer to a dead person?

8. In what way is Clamence two faced?

9. How is Clamence's role as a deus ex machina an accurate metaphor for his work with the demoralized criminals of Paris?

10. How does the narrator compare Amsterdam and Paris?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss whether you think this statement is true or false: The Fall foreshadows the loss of religious belief in the western world Use two examples from the novel to support your argument.

Essay Topic 2

The novel is set in Amsterdam.

1) What meaning does Amsterdam bring to the novel? What would you automatically presume about a novel that was set in Amsterdam?

2) How different do you think today's Amsterdam is to the Amsterdam in the novel? How do you think the novel's meaning would change if it were set in today's Amsterdam?

3) How do you think the Amsterdam settings of the novel contributes to the novel's philosophy?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the construction of Clamence's argument.

1) How does he introduce his ideas?

2) How does he deconstruct his ideas into a logical conclusion?

3) Are the ideas that Camus presents in his book, ideas that relate only the way Clamence lived his life or is the argument a critique of society in general?

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