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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does night descend on the city?
(a) Like a thief.
(b) By abrupt degrees.
(c) Suddenly.
(d) Slowly, after a long twilight.

2. On which other society does the youth of Oran model its behavior?
(a) American.
(b) British.
(c) Arab.
(d) European.

3. How does Camus classify Oran?
(a) As a center of culture.
(b) As a center of industry.
(c) As a desert.
(d) As an oasis.

4. What trees grow above the city?
(a) Mimosa and pittosporums.
(b) Mastics and olives.
(c) Olives and eucalypts.
(d) Olives and oranges.

5. What would the writer choose never to do?
(a) Join a trade union.
(b) Act as a judge.
(c) Join the Resistance.
(d) Betray a colleague.

6. What happens at noon at the Place du Gouvernement?
(a) There is silence.
(b) A bell rings.
(c) The bus from Oran arrives.
(d) People gather.

7. What had the writer hoped to gain when he first visited Tipasa?
(a) Experience as a tour guide.
(b) The clarification of childhood memories.
(c) Some Phoenecian artifacts that might make him rich.
(d) The recapturing of his sense of freedom.

8. What is the role of Nemesis?
(a) To punish those who exceed their limits.
(b) To restore memory of past sins.
(c) To bring soothing sleep.
(d) To claim revenge.

9. How might the mood of the first three paragraphs of Return to Tipasa be described?
(a) Happy.
(b) Depressed.
(c) Excited.
(d) Nostalgic.

10. What can be found at Padovani Beach?
(a) An all-day dance hall.
(b) The best cafe in Algiers.
(c) Lifeguards trained in Australia.
(d) A dance school for the poor.

11. What is meant by 'obscurantism'?
(a) It refers to a secret religious sect once popular in North Africa.
(b) People who are in favor of using the camera obscura.
(c) Opposition to inquiry and enlightenment.
(d) Deliberately using obscure language.

12. What symbol does Camus associate with oppression?
(a) The Berlin Wall.
(b) Barbed wire.
(c) The Iron Curtain.
(d) A trident.

13. At Belcourt, how have marriages been arranged?
(a) Through exchanging peppermint lozenges.
(b) Through exchanging golden rings.
(c) Through marriage brokers.
(d) Through the mosque.

14. What form of travel did Camus use to reach Tipasa?
(a) Car.
(b) Train.
(c) Local taxi.
(d) Bus.

15. What word best describes Camus' attitude to Oran's shops?
(a) Admiring.
(b) Praising.
(c) Scathing.
(d) Tolerating.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had changed Camus' life in September, 1939?

2. What does Camus claim are the two essential pleasures of local youth?

3. What word does Camus think is meaningless in Algeria?

4. To whom are the words 'Presumption, regression of progress' attributed?

5. Of what do the freighters from Norway smell?

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