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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 type of music is played before the fight?
(a) Italian opera.
(b) Ballads from the 1930s.
(c) European techno music.
(d) Sentimental Italian music.

2. What must an artist serve simultaneously?
(a) Suffering and beauty.
(b) Dangers and bitterness.
(c) Dangers and dissonance.
(d) Nature and humanity.

3. What makes Algiers different from cities like Paris, Prague and Florence?
(a) It is not walled, but open.
(b) Its buildings are predominantly of red granite.
(c) It is protected by levees and walls.
(d) It has been settled since the ninth century B.C..

4. What word best describes Camus' attitude to Oran's shops?
(a) Scathing.
(b) Praising.
(c) Tolerating.
(d) Admiring.

5. What can an artist do in the world of today?
(a) Very little because so many governments are corrupt.
(b) Very little because so many governments are totalitarian in style.
(c) He can and should be an advocate for the opressed in many contexts.
(d) Provide people with gentle amusement to take their minds off their troubles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Sakyamuni meditate?

2. What had the writer hoped to gain when he first visited Tipasa?

3. What is different about Tipasa now?

4. With God dead, what remains?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Explain the attraction the desert has for thinking human beings.

9. What problems does Camus see in modern philosophy?

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

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