Nausea Quizzes

Nausea Quiz 1

1 What frames the majority of Nausea?
A fictional preface

A frame narrator in a café

A fictional Editors' Note

Nothing; it moves directly into Antoine's writing
2 Where did Antoine NOT travel before coming to Bouville?
America

The Far East

North Africa

Central Europe
3 From what perspective is the majority of Nausea told?
A second-person dialogue between Antoine and Anny

Omniscient third-person

First-person; a diary from the perspective of Antoine himselfself

A limited-third person narrator, who found Antoine's diaries
4 Why does Antoine choose to write his diary?
To trace his impressions after a strange experience

To work out historical problems

To publish them later

To remember Anny, who has written him recently
5 How do the undated pages end?
With Antoine deciding to write a novel

In the middle of a sentence

With Antoine suffering from nausea

With Antoine deciding to see Anny
6 What does Antoine remember looking at when Mercier offers to take him on an expedition?
A book

Himself

A statuette

A fire
7 At the beginning of the novel, what is Antoine working on?
A history

A sculpture

A novel

A song
8 When he skips a stone near them, children react how to Antoine?
Skip stones further than he could

Call for their parents

Laugh at him

Ask him to play
9 What is the Self-Taught Man's real name?
Ogier P.

Antoine

We don't know

Hogan P.
10 What likely inspired Sartre's Bouville?
Bouville, France

Le Havre

Paris

Sartre's international travels
11 The Marquis was said to have a talent for what?
Fighting

Writing

Dancing

Mimicry
12 What subgenre of the novel might we consider Nausea a part of?
Thrillers

Philosophical novels

Historical novels

Romance
13 Antoine describes a mirror as what?
Golden

A trap

A friend

Useless
14 Where does Antoine begin reading Eugenie Grandet?
Where a character inspired by the Marquis appears

Where he finds it open to

Where he left off reading

Where the Self-Taught Man suggests
15 When Antoine runs into Lucie on the Rue Noir, he describes her as looking like what?
Totally alone

A stone

Beautiful

A prostitute
16 What word does Antoine see on a movie poster? What does it mean?
Purelle; a pure woman

Purȃler; to purify

Purȃtre; a purveyor

Purȃtre; pure-ish
17 What does Antoine find himself strangely unable to touch?
A glass of beer

Paper on the ground

A stone

Lucie
18 In Nausea, which kind of imagery does Sartre not use often?
Visceral, bodily imagery

Dream-like imagery

Classical imagery

Animal imagery
19 How long has Antoine been working on his history?
It's unclear

Since Anny left him

10 years

20 years
20 Antoine compares his work in history to what?
Travelling

Composing a song

Writing a novel

Losing a memory
21 What kind of old shop window is still visible on the "Little Prado" after its gentrification?
A homeowner's association's

An insecticide shop's

A banker's

A bakery's
22 Who built the Church of Saint Cecilia (Église de Sainte-Cécile)?
The president of France

Wealthy citizens

Monks

The French King
23 When he thinks about his experience with Edna, Antoine decides that one has an option to do what or what?
Write or sing

Lie or die

Live or tell

Live or die
24 On Sunday morning, who do the wealthy citizens surround?
A worker who has fainted

The mayor of Bouville

The president of France

The president of the Chamber of Commerce
25 Antoine becomes disgusted after hearing what in a café?
Cars on the street

A flirtatious conversation

A song on the gramophone

A poetry reading

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