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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Return to Tipasa.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Camus classify Oran?
(a) As an oasis.
(b) As a desert.
(c) As a center of industry.
(d) As a center of culture.

2. When Camus writes '. . . like red beasts', he is using which literary device?
(a) Simile.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Idiom.
(d) Personification.

3. What restores calm to the fight audience after the near-riot?
(a) The announcement of the main bout.
(b) Pleas from a tearful woman.
(c) The arrival of the police.
(d) A plea from Camus himself.

4. What is different about Tipasa now?
(a) It has been restored.
(b) It has been settled by homeless people.
(c) It has been fenced in.
(d) It is surrounded by barbed wire.

5. What is the only thing glorified by European thought?
(a) The rule of monarchy.
(b) The art of war.
(c) The beauty of the human form.
(d) The future rule of reason.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are European cemeteries hideous?

2. What happens at noon at the Place du Gouvernement?

3. Camus describes a film in a handbill using words like 'sumptuous', 'staggering', 'amazing' and 'tremendous'. This is an example of which literary device?

4. What does Oedipus' remark imply?

5. What type of music is played before the fight?

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