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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. What does Clamence believe his story illustrates?

2. What does Clamence say happens when a close relative or friend dies?

3. What kind of soldier does Clamence tell a story about?

4. What does the narrator call the barman?

5. What city does Clamence compare Amsterdam with?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the bartender?

2. In what way is Clamence two faced?

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

4. Describe the Mexico City bar.

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

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

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

8. How does the laugh Clamence heard on the bridge affect his life?

9. What does Clamence talk about on the walk to the hotel?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Fall is written in the second person person. Why do you think Camus chose to write the story in the second person? How do you think the meaning of the story would of changed if it was written in the third person?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Look at the Fall of Man story. How influence has the story had on society? How Camus modernize the message in the Fall? What are the similarities and differences between the message the two stories are trying to convey?

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