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The author Albert Camus was born in which country?
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Which book by Camus did George W. Bush claim to have read over his 2006 summer vacation?
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"La Peste" by Albert Camus translates to what?
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What is the name of Albert Camus' The Stranger?
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Which one is not a character from The Plague?
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Which of the following authors never won the Nobel Prize for literature?
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Who does Meursault shoot in Albert Camus's The Stranger?
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The French novel L'Etranger by Albert Camus has been translated as "The Outsider" and "The Foreigner", but is most commonly referred to as...?
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Whose autobiography is entitled (in translation) "If It Die"?
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"The Stranger," by Albert Camus, takes place where?
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Who wrote The Myth of Sisyphus?
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Which novel takes place in Oran?
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In The Plague by Albert Camus, what did one character go over and over revising, asking the other characters what they thought of what he came up with?
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In 1993 novelist Edmund White published a large-scale and highly-respected biography of which influential 20th-century French writer?
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In Albert Camus' novel, The Plague, the town of ___________is ordered closed to prevent the spread of infection:
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Michel Houellebecq's novel Platform opens with the sentence, "Father died last year." A reference to which existentialist classic?
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Where was Albert Camus born?
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During Meersualt's murder trial in Albert Camus's The Stranger what becomes the most damning piece of evidence?
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Which author wrote a novel about someone who never dies?
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Whose work is Albert Camus describing here?
"These anguished books in which man is overwhelmed, but in which life is exalted on each page, are inexhaustible sources of strength and pity. We find in them revolt and acceptance, unconquerable and endless love, the passion for beauty, language of the highest order -- in short, genius."
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If Camus' was first, and Greene's were third and tenth, while Bellow's was dangling, DeLillo's was falling and Dick's was in a high castle - whose was Thursday?
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Arthur Miller wrote about Willy's, Allen Ginsberg's went with fame, and Albert Camus' was happy (although not in real life). So whose took place in the afternoon?
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Which word connects the titles of books by Chinua Achebe, Albert Camus, Edward Gibbon, David Nobbs and Evelyn Waugh?
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