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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Clamence accuse the Dutch of being?
(a) Ignorant
(b) Humorless
(c) Witless
(d) Arrogant

3. Which word best describes Clamence?
(a) Jock
(b) Egotist
(c) Virtuous
(d) Atheist

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

5. What does Clamence want the auditor's sign to summarize?
(a) His feelings
(b) His looks
(c) His life
(d) His character

6. Why does the young woman kill herself?
(a) Clamence does not want her
(b) She has been accused of murder
(c) She is pregnant
(d) Her child is killed

7. What is significant about Clamence's smile in this chapter?
(a) It is the first sign of his madness
(b) It is the first suggestion of self dout
(c) It shows he loves only himself
(d) It shows his evil intent

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

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

10. What does Clamence realize about the woman that deceives him?
(a) She is nasty
(b) She is more intelligent than him
(c) She has a mind of her own
(d) She is angry towards him

11. What does Clamence have a firm belief in?
(a) His intelligence
(b) His abilty as a lawyer
(c) His seduction of women
(d) His superioty

12. What city are the two men in?
(a) Amsterdam
(b) London
(c) Prague
(d) Paris

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

14. In what city was Clamence a defense attorney?
(a) Marseille
(b) Amsterdam
(c) London
(d) Paris

15. Who wrote Inferno?
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Dante
(c) Albert Camus
(d) John Milton

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Clamence compare Amsterdam's canals to?

2. Where does Clamence return to when he is struck?

3. What does Clamence say would happen if every criminal were sentenced?

4. What does Clamence believe is necessary?

5. What is the name of the bar?

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