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

2. What is an example of the use of power Clamence talks about?
(a) Love
(b) Hate
(c) Hypnosis
(d) Communication

3. What two things does Clamence claim he shares with the auditor?
(a) Intelligence and age
(b) Appearance and age
(c) Happiness and appearance
(d) A love for women and a love for books

4. How does Clamence have the ability to judge average society?
(a) He is well educated
(b) He is above them
(c) He have lived with all classes
(d) He is an outsider

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of problem does Clamence confess to?

2. Who does Clamence claim he used to act as an advocate for?

3. What question does the first line of this chapter ask?

4. What does Clamence want the auditor's sign to summarize?

5. What does Clamence not want the women he is with to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does the author show that Clamence is not as confident as he claims?

2. How does the narrator describe the bartender?

3. In what way is Clamence similar to the criminals he once defended?

4. How does Clamence see himself?

5. What does Clamence show himself up to be in this chapter?

6. What is a deus ex machina?

7. In what way does chapter three mark the beginning of Clamence's fall?

8. What was Clamence's role in Paris society?

9. Describe the auditor

10. What does Clamence say his sign would be?

(see the answer keys)

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