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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city was Clamence a defense attorney?

2. What is the first topic to be discussed in this chapter?

3. How does Clamence show his power when it comes to women?

4. Where does Clamence walk the auditor to?

5. What does Clamence say he was forced to remember?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Mexico City bar.

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

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

4. How is Clamence's role as a deus ex machina an accurate metaphor for his work with the demoralized criminals of Paris?

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

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

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

8. What does Clamence say his sign would be?

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

10. What is a deus ex machina?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the following statement: The Fall is reacts against existentialism rather than supporting it. Using examples from the book write an essay either for or against the statement.

Essay Topic 2

Examine the relationship between the Auditor and Clamence. What are their similarities and differences? How do these differences and similarities work to form their complex relationship Camus develops? Why is it significant that the Clamence sees the Auditor as someone like himself?

Essay Topic 3

What is a Judge Penitinent? In what way is it a contradiction? Why is this contradiction important to the ideas that Clamence is trying to express? What does Clamence mean when he says that modern life requires a paradox?

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