Characters
Meursault
What literary device is used when Meursault describes the sun as oppressive and blinding?
Personification
What event occurs at the beginning of "The Stranger"?
Meursault's mother dies.
"Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know."
Meursault
Where was Albert Camus born?
Algeria
What is the name of Meursault's Girlfriend?
Marie Cardona
What is the term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences?
Anaphora
What does Meursault do after his mother's death that shocks others?
Goes to the beach/ he shows little emotion and drinks coffee and smokes in front of her coffin.
"For the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world."
The chaplain
What award did Albert Camus win for his contributions to literature?
The Nobel Prize in Literature
Who is Meursault's neighbor and friend, involved in a conflict with his mistress?
Raymond Sintes
What literary technique is used when Meursault describes his mother's funeral in a detached and matter-of-fact manner?
Tone
What action leads to Meursault's conflict with the Arabs on the beach?
Raymond's confrontation with the Arabs.
"But everybody knows life isn't worth living."
Raymond Sintes
In what literary movement is Albert Camus often associated?
Existentialism
What is the name of the caretaker at the nursing home where Meursault's mother lived?
Thomas Pérez
What is the term for the use of contradictory terms to express a paradoxical idea?
Oxymoron
What is the climax of "The Stranger"?
Meursault shoots the Arab man on the beach.
"That fellow, who doesn't have the guts to take life, is lost."
Meursault's lawyer
What is the title of Albert Camus' most famous essay, which explores the philosophical concept of absurdity?
"The Myth of Sisyphus"
Who is the prosecutor in Meursault's trial?
Prosecutor Pierre-Georges
What literary device is used when Meursault's trial is described as a "judgment of society" rather than a judgment of his actions?
Irony
What is the outcome of Meursault's trial?
He is sentenced to death.
"You could say that, and yet it's not exactly true. I had nothing left to say, nothing to add."
The magistrate
What historical and philosophical event influenced Albert Camus' writing of "The Stranger"?
World War II and the existentialist movement.