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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 confession of faith.
(b) A confession of ignorance.
(c) A true confession.
(d) A confessional poem.

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

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

4. Whence had Camus planned to travel in 1939?
(a) Greece.
(b) South Africa.
(c) England.
(d) France.

5. What kind of role is that of the witness?
(a) Comfortable.
(b) Precarious.
(c) Valuable.
(d) Compromising.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which culture/philosophy does Camus dismiss as 'the child of disproportion'?

2. What restores calm to the fight audience after the near-riot?

3. What significant thing concerning Socrates does Camus refer to?

4. According to Camus, what is the great misfortune from which we all suffer?

5. Of what does Camus accuse the Marxists?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the overall impression the reader has of Oran and its people?

5. What is the essay 'Helen's Exile' concerned with?

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

7. Does Camus see himself as a romantic?

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

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

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

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