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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. What does Clamence believe his story illustrates?
(a) Self confidence
(b) His integrity
(c) His love of life
(d) Self awareness

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Clamence say he is guilty of?

2. On what bridge does Clamence witness a suicide?

3. What was used to lower the deus ex machina on to the satge?

4. What does Clamence realize about the woman that deceives him?

5. What was the deus ex machina's role in a play?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Clamence say his sign would be?

2. What is Clamence's relationship with women?

3. In what way does Clamence compare Amsterdam to Dante's circles of hell?

4. How does the narrator compare Amsterdam and Paris?

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

6. What is Clamence's opinion on the Dutch?

7. How does Clamence see himself?

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

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

10. Why does Clamence say he strives to be selfless?

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