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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Clamence return to when he is struck?
(a) The grass verge
(b) His home
(c) The bar
(d) His car

2. What does Clamence refer to himself as?
(a) A Jekyl and Hyde
(b) A deus ex machina
(c) A fool
(d) A philosopher

3. What does Clamence claim his occupation is?
(a) Doctor
(b) Judge penitent
(c) Lawyer
(d) Writer

4. What is the first topic to be discussed in this chapter?
(a) Marriage
(b) Crossing bridges
(c) The laughter
(d) Friendship

5. What is the name of the bar?
(a) Mexico City
(b) The Circle of Hell
(c) Dante's Fire
(d) London Town

6. What nationality are the two men?
(a) German
(b) Czech
(c) Dutch
(d) French

7. What does Clamence ask the auditor to bestow upon himself?
(a) A sign
(b) A star
(c) A planet
(d) A word

8. What does Clamence feel when the young woman kills herself?
(a) Hurt
(b) Deep sorrow
(c) Nothing
(d) Anger

9. Which of the following terms does Clamence use to describe the auditor?
(a) Cultured bourgeois
(b) A moral interpreter
(c) Seriously humorous
(d) A lover and a thinker

10. What begins Clamence's dissertation on power?
(a) A group of women
(b) The barman's presence
(c) The auditor's lack of confidence
(d) A slave trader's sign

11. What does Clamence believe is necessary?
(a) Love
(b) Marriage
(c) Slavery
(d) Hate

12. What does Clamence claim he is?
(a) A atheist
(b) A sensualist
(c) A dictator
(d) A hate figure

13. What would be the motto on Clamence's sign?
(a) You saw it here first
(b) Love it and hate it
(c) Don't rely on it
(d) Don't sniff it

14. What was the narrator's former job?
(a) Pilot
(b) Lawyer
(c) Publisher
(d) Army officer

15. What would Clamence's cards read?
(a) John Baptiste Clamence, play actor
(b) John Bapiste, the one and only
(c) Jesus Christ, fake
(d) Clamence, true to his word

Short Answer Questions

1. What does society need to stop an argument from stretching into affinity?

2. What does Clamence say we owe the dead?

3. What does Clamence refer to his new companion as?

4. What phrase does Clamence use to describe his fall?

5. Who does Clamence claim he waits for in Mexico City?

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