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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. With what did Socrates' life end.
(a) A confessional poem.
(b) A true confession.
(c) A confession of ignorance.
(d) A confession of faith.

2. What is different about Tipasa now?
(a) It has been restored.
(b) It is surrounded by barbed wire.
(c) It has been settled by homeless people.
(d) It has been fenced in.

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

4. To what type of person is Camus drawn as an artist?
(a) The powerful minority in society who need to be enlightened.
(b) Leftist intellectuals because they hold the key to progress.
(c) The uncomplicated Berbers of North Africa.
(d) The common people who endure burdens and humiliation.

5. To what is the romantic attracted?
(a) History, epic and a miraculous event at the end of time.
(b) Epic struggles between the individual and the state.
(c) Popular fiction.
(d) The idea of God in history and the epic nature of humankind's struggle to survive morally.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which city is Oran's rival?

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

4. What do all struggles need?

5. What form of travel did Camus use to reach Tipasa?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In what way is Camus' comments about Algerian youth tempered by sadness?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is suggested about the Algiers community by Camus' reference to the colors seen on the beaches in summer?

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

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