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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. Whence had Camus planned to travel in 1939?
(a) Greece.
(b) France.
(c) England.
(d) South Africa.
2. With what did Socrates' life end.
(a) A confessional poem.
(b) A confession of faith.
(c) A confession of ignorance.
(d) A true confession.
3. What kind of role is that of the witness?
(a) Precarious.
(b) Compromising.
(c) Comfortable.
(d) Valuable.
4. What does Camus believe is a necessity?
(a) Rule by a meritocracy.
(b) Rule and order.
(c) A covenant binding all to a common law.
(d) Anarchy.
5. What can an artist do in the world of today?
(a) He can and should be an advocate for the opressed in many contexts.
(b) Very little because so many governments are totalitarian in style.
(c) Provide people with gentle amusement to take their minds off their troubles.
(d) Very little because so many governments are corrupt.
Short Answer Questions
1. What phenomenon has seemed continuous since Camus' last departure from Algiers?
2. What building stands above the harbor?
3. What is needed for a person to 'come alive again'?
4. What does the modern political scene force an artist to do?
5. For what does Camus criticize Oran?
Short Essay Questions
1. Can the artist remain aloof from the world he comments upon, depicts and criticizes?
2. What lies 'beyond the yellow walls of Oran'?
3. In what respect did the Greek philosopher Heraclitus think of human society and the physical universe being similar?
4. What is suggested about the Algiers community by Camus' reference to the colors seen on the beaches in summer?
5. What is the overall impression the reader has of Oran and its people?
6. What 'two thirsts' has Camus been able to slake through his visit to Tipasa?
7. What problems does Camus see in modern philosophy?
8. What does Camus mean when he says that the 'tyrannies of today are improved'?
9. In what way did the philosopher Socrates demonstrate his lack of intellectual arrogance?
10. What is the essay 'Helen's Exile' concerned with?
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