The Fall Answers #3 [pg. 98-147]

1. What is ironic about Clamence's notion concerning the relationship of debauchery and wanting to be immortal?

2. What does Clamence recall when he sees the refuse floating in the ocean while he is on the liner?

3. What is the little-ease and what does Clamence think is its "genius"?

4. Why does Clamence posit that Jesus was crucified?

5. Why does Clamence suggest that two people are willing to climb on the cross?

6. Why did Clamence fly into a rage at the subway station which almost led him to discover his patriotism and join the French Resistance?

7. What kind of man did the young Frenchman in the prison camp want to replace the Pope with?

8. Why did Clamence drink the water of a dying man in the camp?

9. What does Clamence muse will be the "real" democracy?

10. What realization does Clamence rach about how to elude punishment?

11. What is the techniwue that Clamence teaches which allows him "to rise above" others?