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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of music is played before the fight?
(a) Sentimental Italian music.
(b) Italian opera.
(c) European techno music.
(d) Ballads from the 1930s.

2. On which other society does the youth of Oran model its behavior?
(a) European.
(b) British.
(c) American.
(d) Arab.

3. What word does Camus think is meaningless in Algeria?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Death.
(c) Loyalty.
(d) Faith.

4. Who calls out 'Want a ride, sister?' to pretty girls?
(a) Bus drivers.
(b) Taxi drivers.
(c) Perverts.
(d) Undertakers.

5. What status as a philosopher does Camus accord Plato?
(a) Acceptable, focussing on reason.
(b) Superior, all-encompassing.
(c) Acceptable, though biased.
(d) Primitive because he had not the benefit of our scientific knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What misconception of himself does the artist have?

2. According to Camus, what is the great misfortune from which we all suffer?

3. What significant thing concerning Socrates does Camus refer to?

4. What can be found at Padovani Beach?

5. At Belcourt, how have marriages been arranged?

Short Essay Questions

1. Can the artist remain aloof from the world he comments upon, depicts and criticizes?

2. In what respects does Camus state that Algiers is capable of gratifying every human wish?

3. Does Camus see himself as a romantic?

4. What is the essay 'Helen's Exile' concerned with?

5. What does Camus mean when he says that the 'tyrannies of today are improved'?

6. What has Camus to say about the shops in Oran?

7. What must modern man do if he is to recapture the mindset of Ancient Greece and be truly civilized?

8. What is the overall impression the reader has of Oran and its people?

9. What factor does Camus claim separates him from some sections of the leftist movement?

10. What problems does Camus see in modern philosophy?

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