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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 want the auditor's sign to summarize?

2. Who did Clamence have an argument with?

3. Where does Clamence say he is obliged to live?

4. What does Clamence feel when the young woman kills herself?

5. What does Clamence suggests happens when he climbs to great heights?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a deus ex machina?

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

3. How does the narrator compare Amsterdam and Paris?

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

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

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

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

8. What does Clamence show himself up to be in this chapter?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Identify the main themes of the story. Why do you think these themes are so important to the story? How does Camus use character and setting to express these themes?

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