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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. Who does Clamence offer as pope?

2. Where is the camp Clamence is sent to?

3. What does Clamence say the underlying environment of the Dutch part of town is like?

4. Why is water so important in the camp?

5. Why does Clamence decide to keep only the company of women?

Short Essay Questions

1. What encourage Clamence to join the foreign legion?

2. Describe Clamence's hallucination aboard the boat in chapter 5?

3. What is Clamence's reason for stealing a dying man's water?

4. What does Clamence remember about Paris in chapter 5?

5. How does Clamence lose his title of pope?

6. What is the essence of Clamence's philosophy?

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

8. What debauchery does Clamence partake in?

9. In what way does Clamence think the deceased is helpless?

10. Why must the doves remain high in the atmosphere?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the role of the outsider in society. Why are so many philosophers and commentators in society thought of as outsiders? In what what way can outsiders see things differently to the majority? Why is their opinion seen as so valid? if it easier for an outsider like Clamence to recognize problems in society?

Essay Topic 2

Examine translations. Do you think think a translator has to know about a country as well as the language to translate a book effectively? What do you think The Fall loses in its translation? In what way would you get more out of a book by reading it in its original translation?

Essay Topic 3

Look at the structure of the novel.

1) Discuss elements of the narrative structure; Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the novel's themes?

2) Away from the narrator examine the way Camus uses the other characters in the story. In what way do they help Clamence get his view across to the reader?

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