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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) Slowly, after a long twilight.
(b) Like a thief.
(c) Suddenly.
(d) By abrupt degrees.
2. What do all struggles need?
(a) The brake of values.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) To come to a conclusion.
(d) Protagonists.
3. For what does Camus criticize Oran?
(a) Indifference and profound apathy.
(b) Discrimination and ennui.
(c) Mediocrity and indifference.
(d) Apathy and cruelty.
4. To what is the romantic attracted?
(a) Epic struggles between the individual and the state.
(b) History, epic and a miraculous event at the end of time.
(c) Popular fiction.
(d) The idea of God in history and the epic nature of humankind's struggle to survive morally.
5. Camus describes a film in a handbill using words like 'sumptuous', 'staggering', 'amazing' and 'tremendous'. This is an example of which literary device?
(a) Catastrophe.
(b) Menonymy.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Hyperbole.
6. What is meant by 'quixotism'?
(a) Having the quality of the visionary or the romantic.
(b) The belief in the miracles of Don Quixote.
(c) Being generally unreliable and untrustworthy.
(d) Moving very quickly.
7. What must an artist serve simultaneously?
(a) Suffering and beauty.
(b) Dangers and bitterness.
(c) Dangers and dissonance.
(d) Nature and humanity.
8. In summer, what happens to Algiers?
(a) It is subject to extremes of weather.
(b) It becomes deserted.
(c) Pilgrims arrive and accommodation is stretched.
(d) It fills with eager tourists.
9. What type of music is played before the fight?
(a) Italian opera.
(b) Ballads from the 1930s.
(c) Sentimental Italian music.
(d) European techno music.
10. Camus uses the word 'furtive' to describe _____________.
(a) Olive trees.
(b) Wormwood plants.
(c) Lizards.
(d) The ancient columns.
11. How does Camus classify Oran?
(a) As an oasis.
(b) As a center of industry.
(c) As a desert.
(d) As a center of culture.
12. What comment does Camus make about the word 'sin'?
(a) That he has never really understood it.
(b) It is something we all should be more aware of.
(c) That it refers to an illusion.
(d) That it is a word used to make people fearful, thus easy to control.
13. Who calls out 'Want a ride, sister?' to pretty girls?
(a) Taxi drivers.
(b) Bus drivers.
(c) Undertakers.
(d) Perverts.
14. In this essay, the Minotaur is used to represent which human experience?
(a) Bewilderment.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Passion.
(d) Power.
15. From examining the text, what do we learn about Salamis?
(a) That is was a sea battle.
(b) That barbarians lived there.
(c) That it was a city overrun by barbarians.
(d) That it was a lost text.
Short Answer Questions
1. What restores calm to the fight audience after the near-riot?
2. What is the contrast between the historical and artistic spirits, according to Camus?
3. What is paradoxical about Algiers?
4. With what did Socrates' life end.
5. What comment does Camus make about Greek thought?
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