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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 young man want the prison pope to be elected for?
(a) His height
(b) His skill at ping pong
(c) His failings
(d) His ugliness

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

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

4. What does Clamence observe on the surface of the water?
(a) A dark speck
(b) A whale
(c) A human foot
(d) His trousers

5. What other torture apparatus does Clamence mention in this chapter?
(a) The hair puller
(b) A spitting cell
(c) The rack
(d) A thumb screw

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Clamence suffer from?

2. Who does Clament fantasize assaulting?

3. Where does Clamence intend to end up?

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

5. What does Clamence continue to hear even in his forlorn state?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Clamence lose his title of pope?

2. Why does Clamence call attention to the quaintness of Amsterdam?

3. What encourage Clamence to join the foreign legion?

4. Describe Clamence's time in the foreign legion.

5. Summarize Clamence's argument?

6. What does Clamence say is the goal of living?

7. What is Clamence's opinions on Jesus Christ?

8. What does the boat in the fifth chapter represent?

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

10. How does Clamence decide to add excitement to his life in chapter 5?

(see the answer keys)

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