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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 not want the women he is with to do?

2. What does Clamence claim would be true happiness for him?

3. What does Clamence say we owe the dead?

4. What are the Sadducee?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Clamence and his new companion represent?

2. Why does Clamence say it is easier to be closer to a dead person?

3. In what way does Clamence compare Amsterdam to Dante's circles of hell?

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

5. How does the narrator describe the bartender?

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

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

8. What is a Sadducee?

9. What does Clamence say his sign would be?

10. In what way does Clamence show himself to be a narcissist?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine monologue. How does Camus develop characterization, plot and themes through the use of monologue. What meaning would the novel lose if it was written in ordinary prose?

Essay Topic 2

What is Clamence referring to when he states a death of a person brings them closer to us? Is this statement specific to his own personality or is he trying to attribute it to society in general?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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