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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Clamence offend atheists?
(a) By joining the church
(b) By reading from the bible
(c) By speaking of God
(d) By belittling their belief

2. Who does Clamence want to vilify?
(a) His family
(b) The people he once defended
(c) The royal family
(d) The French prime minister

3. What does Clamence turn to in an attempt to rediscover his enthusiasm?
(a) Literature
(b) Debauchery
(c) Yoga
(d) Religion

4. What does Clamence say he has a lack of?
(a) Feelings
(b) Women
(c) Ego
(d) Friends

5. What does Clamence suffer from?
(a) Flu
(b) Malaria
(c) Menses
(d) Asthma

6. What does Clamence say is happiness for him?
(a) Making people laugh
(b) Feeling love
(c) Making others unhappy
(d) Making women cry

7. In what chapter did Clamence first mention the little ease?
(a) Chapter 1
(b) Chapter 2
(c) Chapter 3
(d) Chapter 4

8. What does Clamence decide to join after the incident with the dog?
(a) The church
(b) The masons
(c) The French resistance
(d) The German army

9. How does Clamence lose his position as pope?
(a) He drinks the water of a dying man
(b) He becomes an atheist
(c) He lies
(d) He confesses his sins

10. What is Clamence too self obsessed to do?
(a) Kill himself
(b) Work
(c) Murder
(d) Marry

11. Why does Clamence claim he is a Judge Pentinent?
(a) Because the world is unjust
(b) Because of the hypocrisy of the world
(c) Because he is funny
(d) Because his father was

12. What are the only two things Clamence says the doves can see from the sky?
(a) Smoke and cars
(b) Trams and bicycles
(c) People and cars
(d) Shop signs and canals

13. What is the sky full of?
(a) Clouds
(b) Doves
(c) Gulls
(d) Planes

14. When did Clamence claim he contracted malaria?
(a) During his time as a circus performer
(b) During his time in the trenches
(c) During his time as pope
(d) During his time in Africa

15. What do jailers do to a person in the spitting cell?
(a) Spit on them
(b) Pull their hair
(c) Gouge their eyes
(d) Throw hot coffee in their face

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Clamence want to confess?

2. What door does Clamence ask the auditor to open?

3. Where did the painting once hang?

4. Why does Clamence decide to keep only the company of women?

5. How does Clamence celebrate the curing of his illness?

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