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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the girl's father's pastime?

2. What does Clamence promise to do at the end of chapter 4?

3. What is the sky full of?

4. What does Clamence say he can no longer bear?

5. Who does the dog go to instead?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has Clamence's relationship with the auditor changed?

2. Describe the Just Judges painting?

3. Why is Clamence a judge pentinent?

4. How does Clament change when he begins to fear judgment?

5. What does the boat in the fifth chapter represent?

6. How does Greece contrast with Paris?

7. What does Clamence say is the goal of living?

8. What does the little ease signify?

9. What is a little ease?

10. Summarize Clamence's argument?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Fall is written in the second person person. Why do you think Camus chose to write the story in the second person? How do you think the meaning of the story would of changed if it was written in the third person?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the construction of Clamence's argument.

1) How does he introduce his ideas?

2) How does he deconstruct his ideas into a logical conclusion?

3) Are the ideas that Camus presents in his book, ideas that relate only the way Clamence lived his life or is the argument a critique of society in general?

Essay Topic 3

Look at the Fall of Man story. How influence has the story had on society? How Camus modernize the message in the Fall? What are the similarities and differences between the message the two stories are trying to convey?

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