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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) Ballads from the 1930s.
(b) Italian opera.
(c) European techno music.
(d) Sentimental Italian music.

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

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

4. Camus mentions the parliament of birds in which literary source?
(a) Russian.
(b) Hindu.
(c) English.
(d) Arabian.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Camus accuse the Marxists?

2. From examining the text, what do we learn about Salamis?

3. What is different about Tipasa now?

4. Which city is Oran's rival?

5. What would the writer choose never to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Can the artist remain aloof from the world he comments upon, depicts and criticizes?

7. From information in Camus' text, what do we understand Tipasa to be?

8. What lies 'beyond the yellow walls of Oran'?

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

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

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