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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What restores calm to the fight audience after the near-riot?
(a) A plea from Camus himself.
(b) The arrival of the police.
(c) The announcement of the main bout.
(d) Pleas from a tearful woman.

2. Where is history now to be found?
(a) In books.
(b) In libraries.
(c) In archival collections held by governments.
(d) In the streets.

3. What does the word 'limpid' mean?
(a) Ambient.
(b) Limp and floppy.
(c) A shade of pink.
(d) Clear or transparent.

4. What must an artist serve simultaneously?
(a) Nature and humanity.
(b) Suffering and beauty.
(c) Dangers and bitterness.
(d) Dangers and dissonance.

5. Whence had Camus planned to travel in 1939?
(a) Greece.
(b) South Africa.
(c) France.
(d) England.

6. What kind of role is that of the witness?
(a) Precarious.
(b) Compromising.
(c) Comfortable.
(d) Valuable.

7. To whom are the words 'Presumption, regression of progress' attributed?
(a) Hera.
(b) Heraclitus.
(c) Helen.
(d) Heracles.

8. To what type of person is Camus drawn as an artist?
(a) The common people who endure burdens and humiliation.
(b) The uncomplicated Berbers of North Africa.
(c) Leftist intellectuals because they hold the key to progress.
(d) The powerful minority in society who need to be enlightened.

9. Who calls out 'Want a ride, sister?' to pretty girls?
(a) Perverts.
(b) Undertakers.
(c) Taxi drivers.
(d) Bus drivers.

10. Where did Sakyamuni meditate?
(a) In the desert.
(b) On top of a holy mountain.
(c) On top of a pole.
(d) In a dark room.

11. What does Camus describe as 'sheer madness'?
(a) Expecting nothing to change as we grow older.
(b) Returning to places that were important in one's youth.
(c) Trying to find friends from long ago.
(d) Going into dimly lighted cafes at night.

12. Which culture/philosophy does Camus dismiss as 'the child of disproportion'?
(a) European.
(b) Hindu.
(c) Arabic.
(d) Chinese.

13. 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.

14. Of what does Camus accuse the Marxists?
(a) Rejecting the reality of human nature.
(b) Supporting harsh rule.
(c) Giving in to the theists.
(d) Failing to take a firmer stand.

15. What makes Algiers different from cities like Paris, Prague and Florence?
(a) It is protected by levees and walls.
(b) It has been settled since the ninth century B.C..
(c) Its buildings are predominantly of red granite.
(d) It is not walled, but open.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Camus say is foreign to us today?

2. What happens at noon at the Place du Gouvernement?

3. Of what does the color of the ruined city's columns remind the writer?

4. For what does Camus criticize Oran?

5. What symbol does Camus associate with oppression?

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