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A man with this job becomes a Marxist guerrilla in the novel Between Tides. The cynical cook Zacharia ridicules an absentee with this job who departs Tala country after he learns that the “sixa girls” work at a brothel. An employer of Toundi with this job (-5[1])dies in a motorcycle crash in the first “exercise book” of Ferdinand Oyono’s Houseboy. Before his death is labeled (10[1])a “doubtful case,” a man with this job speaks of a “flail” threshing above (10[1])the city’s rooftops. V. Y. Mudimbe’s (“moo-deem-bay’s”) The Invention of Africa critiques the “vital force” outlined by an author with this job in Bantu Philosophy. (10[1])This is the occupation of Drumont (“drew-MON”) in a satire by Mongo Beti and of a man who justifies (10[1])children’s suffering in two speeches after Castel’s serum (-5[1])fails to save (10[1])Othon’s son in Oran (-5[4])(“oh-RAWN”). For 10 (10[1]-5[1])points, (0[1]-5[1])name this (-5[1])occupation (10[2]-5[4])of Paneloux (10[1]-5[1])in Albert Camus’s The Plague. (10[2])■END■ (10[6]0[6])

ANSWER: priests [or fathers, confessors, curates, prêtres, pères, doms, or curés; accept clergy, missionaries, clerics, pastors, ministers, vicars, prelates, Jesuits, Franciscans, friars, or equivalents of any; reject “monks” or “abbots” or “bishops”] (Placide Tempels wrote Bantu Philosophy. Beti wrote The Poor Christ of Bomba.)
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TournamentEditionExact Match?TUHConv. %Power %Neg %Average Buzz
2024 ACF Nationals04/21/2024Y2471%0%58%132.18