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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Clamence respect about the Dutch middle class?
(a) Their high ideas
(b) Their morals
(c) Their business sense
(d) Their arrogance

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

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

4. What does Clamence say a woman's faithfulness feeds?
(a) His brain
(b) His soul
(c) His ego
(d) His heart

5. What phrase does Clamence use to describe his fall?
(a) Day when he told his wife he did not want to see her again
(b) Night when the sky was black and people forgot to smile
(c) Evening when the music stopped and the lights went out.
(d) When everyone turned their backs

6. What does Clamence say happens when a close relative or friend dies?
(a) You lose a part of yourself
(b) You forget them
(c) You move on
(d) They become closer to ou

7. What does Clamence say he is guilty of?
(a) Hate
(b) Passion
(c) Passivity
(d) Aggression

8. What does the young woman do in Clamence's story?
(a) Cuts out her eyes
(b) Marries a tyrant
(c) Robs a bank
(d) Commits suicide

9. What should a master exercise power without?
(a) Ostentation
(b) Love
(c) A whip
(d) Chains

10. Why does Clamence help the blind across the street?
(a) For money
(b) Tomake others look bad
(c) To gain pleasure of virtue
(d) For women

11. How does Clamence show his power when it comes to women?
(a) Screaming
(b) Forcing his women into oaths of faithfulness
(c) Flexing his muscles
(d) Going with whom he please when he pleases

12. What two passions do Parisians have?
(a) Ideas and fornication
(b) Wine and cheese
(c) Religion and education
(d) Coffee and crepes

13. Which of the following subjects does Clamence talk about as they walk?
(a) Communism
(b) Hitler's death
(c) Nazi genocide
(d) Socialism

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

15. What does Clamence say he was forced to remember?
(a) His love for life
(b) His actions and motivations
(c) His brother
(d) His parents

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Clamence say we owe the dead?

2. What is the name of the bar?

3. What is the only language the bartender speaks?

4. What kind of soldier does Clamence tell a story about?

5. What does Clamence say he is doomed to?

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