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

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

3. For whose victory must we hope?
(a) The gods'.
(b) The artists'.
(c) The proleteriats'.
(d) The politicians'.

4. In which month has the writer returned to Algiers?
(a) November.
(b) February.
(c) December.
(d) August.

5. Camus uses the word 'furtive' to describe _____________.
(a) Wormwood plants.
(b) Lizards.
(c) Olive trees.
(d) The ancient columns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Algiers different from cities like Paris, Prague and Florence?

2. What is the origin of the nickname 'Clarques'?

3. Of what do the freighters from Norway smell?

4. What does Vincent do for a living?

5. Which groups of people exchange positions rapidly in this changed world?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why do you think Camus calls nudists 'those Protestants of the flesh'?

8. What must modern man do if he is to recapture the mindset of Ancient Greece and be truly civilized?

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

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

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