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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. In summer, what happens to Algiers?
(a) It is subject to extremes of weather.
(b) It becomes deserted.
(c) It fills with eager tourists.
(d) Pilgrims arrive and accommodation is stretched.

2. What is the alternative title for The Minotaur?
(a) A Stop in Oran.
(b) The Stoop in Oran.
(c) The Stop in Oran.
(d) A Setup in Oran.

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

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

5. How does Camus describe today's society?
(a) As potentially communist.
(b) As laissez-faire.
(c) As overly regulated.
(d) As disordered.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would the writer choose never to do?

2. What do Arabs sell for five sous?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What attitudes and feelings does Camus convey to the reader in the opening paragraphs of his essay 'Return to Tipasa'?

2. What does Camus take away from his visit to Tipasa?

3. What does Camus mean when he says that the 'tyrannies of today are improved'?

4. What 'two thirsts' has Camus been able to slake through his visit to Tipasa?

5. What is the essay 'Helen's Exile' concerned with?

6. Of what does Camus accuse the Marxists in Section III of The Artist and his Time?

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

8. What is peculiar about the built environment of Oran, according to Camus?

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

10. What has Camus to say about the shops in Oran?

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