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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 the Nazi soldier ask a mother?
(a) Which of her sons should be executed
(b) If she wants to kill her child herself
(c) If she loves her sons
(d) If she has a cigarette

2. What was used to lower the deus ex machina on to the satge?
(a) A rope
(b) A pole
(c) A crane
(d) A pulley

3. 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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Clamence say a woman's faithfulness feeds?

2. Who did Clamence have an argument with?

3. From what culture does the deus ex machina come from?

4. What is an example of the use of power Clamence talks about?

5. What does Clamence claim his occupation is?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is significant about the story about the motorcycle?

3. Summarize the story about the motorcycle Clamence tells in chapter 3?

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

5. What is the significance of Clamence calling himself Jean-Baptiste?

6. What is a deus ex machina?

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

8. What does Clamence say his sign would be?

9. Describe Clamence's experience on the Pont de Arts.

10. Describe the auditor

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