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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. What do all struggles need?
(a) The brake of values.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) To come to a conclusion.
(d) Protagonists.

2. What comment does Camus make about Greek thought?
(a) It wasn't balanced.
(b) It took too little account of feelings.
(c) It never carried things to extremes.
(d) It could be our inspiration, if translated.

3. What does Vincent do for a living?
(a) He is a copper.
(b) He is a concierge.
(c) He is a consultant.
(d) He is a cooper.

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

5. What is the only thing glorified by European thought?
(a) The art of war.
(b) The beauty of the human form.
(c) The rule of monarchy.
(d) The future rule of reason.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where can Moorish cafes be found?

4. When Camus writes '. . . like red beasts', he is using which literary device?

5. What did the writer do when the weather changed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What technique does Camus use to convey the impression that Tipasa is a peaceful and happy place?

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

4. To what do love, peace and beauty form the antidote?

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

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

7. Comment on the title of the essay 'Helen's Exile'.

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

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

10. What, according to Camus, is paradoxical about the crowded city of Oran, and crowded cities in general?

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