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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which composer is associated with Salzburg?
(a) Messiaen.
(b) Beethoven.
(c) Wagner.
(d) Mozart.

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

3. What had changed Camus' life in September, 1939?
(a) War.
(b) The birth of his twin children.
(c) His belief that God was dead.
(d) Marriage.

4. With God dead, what remains?
(a) Power.
(b) Chaos and warfare.
(c) An erratic universe.
(d) History and power.

5. What is needed for a person to 'come alive again'?
(a) Prayer and meditation.
(b) Meditation in a suitable place.
(c) A beautiful homeland and a loving family.
(d) Special grace, self-forgetfulness or a homeland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who calls out 'Want a ride, sister?' to pretty girls?

2. Whence had Camus planned to travel in 1939?

3. What does the name Chenoua refer to?

4. What type of music is played before the fight?

5. What significant thing concerning Socrates does Camus refer to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does Camus see himself as a romantic?

2. In what respects does Camus state that Algiers is capable of gratifying every human wish?

3. In what way did the philosopher Socrates demonstrate his lack of intellectual arrogance?

4. In what respect did the Greek philosopher Heraclitus think of human society and the physical universe being similar?

5. What factor does Camus claim separates him from some sections of the leftist movement?

6. Of what is Camus speaking when he criticizes 'idealism of the worst kind' (p.188 of the Penguin edition)?

7. What is ironic and unexpected about Camus' description of the way the Algerian people enjoy summer?

8. What is the overall impression the reader has of Oran and its people?

9. Can the artist remain aloof from the world he comments upon, depicts and criticizes?

10. What problems does Camus see in modern philosophy?

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