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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Camus describe as 'sheer madness'?
(a) Returning to places that were important in one's youth.
(b) Going into dimly lighted cafes at night.
(c) Expecting nothing to change as we grow older.
(d) Trying to find friends from long ago.

3. What is paradoxical about Algiers?
(a) There is lots of sunlight, yet the place resembles a grim fortress.
(b) It contains both cathedrals and mosques.
(c) It gives a man both pleasure and misery.
(d) It is on the sea, but inaccessible to shipping.

4. What misconception of himself does the artist have?
(a) That he is a genius.
(b) That he is solitary.
(c) That he is divine.
(d) That his art will bring riches and fame.

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

6. In what way is the Ancient Greek idea of justice different from the modern European?
(a) The Greeks were concerned with limitation, but for modern Europeans justice is seen as something total.
(b) For the Ancient Greeks, punishment could be meted out by the gods; Europeans use the courts of law.
(c) The Ancient Greeks used ostracism; Europeans use execution.
(d) The Greeks believed in divine inspiration to set limits; Europeans rely on committees.

7. What does the name Chenoua refer to?
(a) A pre-Islamic goddess.
(b) The harbor at Algiers.
(c) A type of Berber carpet.
(d) A mountain.

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

9. What building stands above the harbor?
(a) The Kasbah.
(b) The mosque.
(c) An immense library.
(d) A huge block of flats.

10. What word does Camus think is meaningless in Algeria?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Faith.
(c) Loyalty.
(d) Death.

11. What is meant by 'quixotism'?
(a) The belief in the miracles of Don Quixote.
(b) Having the quality of the visionary or the romantic.
(c) Being generally unreliable and untrustworthy.
(d) Moving very quickly.

12. What does the word 'limpid' mean?
(a) Limp and floppy.
(b) Ambient.
(c) Clear or transparent.
(d) A shade of pink.

13. At Belcourt, how have marriages been arranged?
(a) Through exchanging peppermint lozenges.
(b) Through exchanging golden rings.
(c) Through marriage brokers.
(d) Through the mosque.

14. According to Camus, what is the great misfortune from which we all suffer?
(a) The misfortune of not loving.
(b) The misfortune of war.
(c) The misfortune of injustice.
(d) The misfortune of hate.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What comment does Camus make about the word 'sin'?

2. Who calls out 'Want a ride, sister?' to pretty girls?

3. Camus mentions the parliament of birds in which literary source?

4. What word best describes Camus' attitude to Oran's shops?

5. Whence had Camus planned to travel in 1939?

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