Q 01/05

Which English rock band's debut single, Killing an Arab, is based on Albert Camus's The Stranger?

A) Joy Division

B) The Cure

C) The Smiths

D) Bauhaus

Answer · why

B) The Cure

The Cure put it out in 1978, and the title caused such trouble that Robert Smith later said he wished he had called the song Standing on the Beach.

Q 02/05

How did Albert Camus, author of The Stranger, die near the French town of Sens in January 1960?

A) A car crash

B) Tuberculosis

C) A plane crash

D) A heart attack

Answer · why

A) A car crash

A car crash killed him instantly at 46, in the passenger seat of his publisher's Facel Vega. The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was found in t...

Q 03/05

Which football position did The Stranger's author Albert Camus play for a junior team in Algiers?

A) Striker

B) Winger

C) Goalkeeper

D) Centre-half

Answer · why

C) Goalkeeper

Goalkeeper was his position for Racing Universitaire d'Alger's juniors from 1928 to 1930. Tuberculosis, diagnosed when he was 17, ended any hopes of a...

Q 04/05

What does Meursault say drove him to shoot a man on the beach in The Stranger, rather than revenge?

A) The wine

B) His fear

C) His friend

D) The sun

Answer · why

D) The sun

The sun is all he can offer when the judge asks for a motive. He means the heat and the glare off the blade that dazed him, but the court hears a man ...

Q 05/05

By what method is Meursault sentenced to die for murder at the end of his trial in The Stranger?

A) The gallows

B) A firing squad

C) The guillotine

D) The garrote

Answer · why

C) The guillotine

The guillotine is his sentence, to be carried out in public, although his own lawyer had told him the punishment would probably be light.