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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 say he can no longer bear?
(a) Fun
(b) The emptiness of Paris
(c) Women
(d) His duplicity

2. Why did Christ die in Clamence's opinion?
(a) His lack of innocence
(b) He was weak
(c) He wanted to be famous
(d) He was a masochist

3. What city does Clamence contrast Greece to?
(a) Paris
(b) Prague
(c) Amsterdam
(d) London

4. What did Clamence want to achieve by killing himself?
(a) Make a political statement
(b) Play on the emotions of his friends
(c) Make his mother feel guilty
(d) Get in the newspapers

5. Who does Clamence offer as pope?
(a) The young Frenchman
(b) A prison guard
(c) Himself
(d) His best friend

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the only two things Clamence says the doves can see from the sky?

2. What does Clamence want to confess?

3. Where is Clamence at the beginning of this chapter?

4. What does Clamence claim the shop signs symbolize?

5. How do male friends in Greece walk?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Clamence's reason for stealing a dying man's water?

2. What is a spitting cell?

3. Describe the Dutch town.

4. Describe Clamence's hallucination aboard the boat in chapter 5?

5. How has Clamence's relationship with the auditor changed?

6. How does Clamence make himself feel happy?

7. What does the little ease signify?

8. How does Clament change when he begins to fear judgment?

9. What did Clamence find out when he tried to commit suicide?

10. What debauchery does Clamence partake in?

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