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What did Camus call our clash with a silent universe?

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  1. 1 Easy

    Where does The Plague take place?

    Answer: Oran

    Why: Oran knew the real disease long before the novel: a plague epidemic there in 1678 killed about 3,000 people.

  2. 2 Medium

    How does The Stranger leave Meursault?

    Answer: Awaiting execution

    Why: On the last page he only pictures the day of his execution, hoping a big, jeering crowd will be there.

  3. 3 Hard

    Who turns out to narrate The Plague?

    Answer: Rieux

    Why: Rieux works Tarrou's notebooks into his account, but names himself as the narrator only at the end.

  4. 4 Easy

    What does Meursault do the day after his mother's funeral?

    Answer: Goes swimming

    Why: That same evening he and Marie go to the cinema to see a Fernandel comedy.

  5. 5 Medium

    Which illness ended Camus's football days?

    Answer: tuberculosis

    Why: The illness later kept him out of the French army, which turned him down when he volunteered in World War II.

  6. 6 Hard

    Which Camus work's hero is named Patrice Mersault?

    Answer: A Happy Death

    Why: Camus shelved this precursor of The Stranger in the late 1930s, so its hero, a near namesake of Meursault, reached print only in 1971.

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