Nausea Quizzes

Nausea Quiz 1

1 What frames the majority of Nausea?

Nothing; it moves directly into Antoine's writing

A frame narrator in a café

A fictional Editors' Note

A fictional preface
2 Where did Antoine NOT travel before coming to Bouville?

North Africa

America

The Far East

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 remember Anny, who has written him recently

To publish them later
5 How do the undated pages end?

With Antoine deciding to write a novel

With Antoine deciding to see Anny

In the middle of a sentence

With Antoine suffering from nausea
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 song

A novel
8 When he skips a stone near them, children react how to Antoine?

Ask him to play

Skip stones further than he could

Call for their parents

Laugh at him
9 What is the Self-Taught Man's real name?

Ogier P.

Hogan P.

We don't know

Antoine
10 What likely inspired Sartre's Bouville?

Bouville, France

Paris

Sartre's international travels

Le Havre
11 The Marquis was said to have a talent for what?

Fighting

Writing

Mimicry

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

Historical novels

Philosophical novels

Thrillers

Romance
13 Antoine describes a mirror as what?

A friend

Useless

Golden

A trap
14 Where does Antoine begin reading Eugenie Grandet?

Where the Self-Taught Man suggests

Where he left off reading

Where a character inspired by the Marquis appears

Where he finds it open to
15 When Antoine runs into Lucie on the Rue Noir, he describes her as looking like what?

Beautiful

Totally alone

A stone

A prostitute
16 What word does Antoine see on a movie poster? What does it mean?

Purȃler; to purify

Purelle; a pure woman

Purȃtre; a purveyor

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

Lucie

Paper on the ground

A glass of beer

A stone
18 In Nausea, which kind of imagery does Sartre not use often?

Visceral, bodily imagery

Dream-like imagery

Animal imagery

Classical imagery
19 How long has Antoine been working on his history?

Since Anny left him

It's unclear

10 years

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

Writing a novel

Travelling

Composing a song

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

A bakery's

A banker's

An insecticide shop's
22 Who built the Church of Saint Cecilia (Église de Sainte-Cécile)?

Monks

The French King

The president of France

Wealthy citizens
23 When he thinks about his experience with Edna, Antoine decides that one has an option to do what or what?

Live or die

Lie or die

Write or sing

Live or tell
24 On Sunday morning, who do the wealthy citizens surround?

The president of France

The president of the Chamber of Commerce

A worker who has fainted

The mayor of Bouville
25 Antoine becomes disgusted after hearing what in a café?

A poetry reading

Cars on the street

A flirtatious conversation

A song on the gramophone

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