The Stranger

Reading Check questions are designed for in-class review on key plot points or for quick verbal or written assessments. Multiple Choice and Short Answer Quizzes create ideal summative assessments, and collectively function to convey a sense of the work’s tone and themes.

Part 1, Chapters 1-3

Reading Check

1. Whose death does the narrator announce in the book’s first line?

2. What surprises Meursault about the director’s plans for his mother’s funeral?

3. Whom does Meursault meet while he is swimming, in Chapter 2?

4. How do Meursault and Emmanuel get to Celeste's on Monday?

5. Why does Raymond Sintès tell Meursault that he wants Meursault’s advice in particular?

Multiple Choice

1. What does Meursault say made his mother happy in the care home?

A) She enjoyed the activities.

B) She had many friends there.

C) She was accustomed to it.

D) She could get medical care there.

2. What offer of the caretaker’s does Meursault feel embarrassed for refusing?

A) He offers to open the casket so Meursault can see his mother.

B) He offers to get a priest to counsel Meursault.

C) He offers to bring the doctor to explain how Meursault’s mother died.

D) He offers to show Meursault the room where his mother lived.

3. How does Marie react when Meursault tells her that his mother died the previous day?