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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 does Camus say is foreign to us today?
(a) Compassion.
(b) The guiles and temptations of Calypso.
(c) A sense of fair play.
(d) The simple nobility of Ulysses.
2. What phenomenon has seemed continuous since Camus' last departure from Algiers?
(a) Oppression.
(b) Terrorism.
(c) Rain.
(d) Drought.
3. How might the mood of the first three paragraphs of Return to Tipasa be described?
(a) Nostalgic.
(b) Happy.
(c) Excited.
(d) Depressed.
4. What is meant by 'obscurantism'?
(a) Deliberately using obscure language.
(b) People who are in favor of using the camera obscura.
(c) It refers to a secret religious sect once popular in North Africa.
(d) Opposition to inquiry and enlightenment.
5. What do all struggles need?
(a) The brake of values.
(b) Protagonists.
(c) To come to a conclusion.
(d) Soldiers.
Short Answer Questions
1. What kind of role is that of the witness?
2. What happens at noon at the Place du Gouvernement?
3. With what did Socrates' life end.
4. To what type of person is Camus drawn as an artist?
5. What would the writer choose never to do?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Camus mean when he says that the 'tyrannies of today are improved'?
2. Comment on the title of the essay 'Helen's Exile'.
3. Explain the attraction the desert has for thinking human beings.
4. Of what is Camus speaking when he criticizes 'idealism of the worst kind' (p.188 of the Penguin edition)?
5. What factor does Camus claim separates him from some sections of the leftist movement?
6. Why do you think Camus calls nudists 'those Protestants of the flesh'?
7. In what way did the philosopher Socrates demonstrate his lack of intellectual arrogance?
8. What is peculiar about the built environment of Oran, according to Camus?
9. What is the essay 'Helen's Exile' concerned with?
10. What is the overall impression the reader has of Oran and its people?
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