Nausea Quizzes

Nausea Quiz 1

1 What frames the majority of Nausea?

A frame narrator in a café

A fictional preface

A fictional Editors' Note

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

North Africa

Central Europe

The Far East

America
3 From what perspective is the majority of Nausea told?

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

A second-person dialogue between Antoine and Anny

Omniscient third-person

A limited-third person narrator, who found Antoine's diaries
4 Why does Antoine choose to write his diary?

To publish them later

To remember Anny, who has written him recently

To work out historical problems

To trace his impressions after a strange experience
5 How do the undated pages end?

With Antoine suffering from nausea

With Antoine deciding to see Anny

In the middle of a sentence

With Antoine deciding to write a novel
6 What does Antoine remember looking at when Mercier offers to take him on an expedition?

A book

Himself

A fire

A statuette
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?

Call for their parents

Skip stones further than he could

Laugh at him

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

Hogan P.

Ogier P.

Antoine

We don't know
10 What likely inspired Sartre's Bouville?

Bouville, France

Sartre's international travels

Paris

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

Writing

Mimicry

Fighting

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

Philosophical novels

Romance

Thrillers

Historical novels
13 Antoine describes a mirror as what?

A friend

Golden

Useless

A trap
14 Where does Antoine begin reading Eugenie Grandet?

Where he left off reading

Where a character inspired by the Marquis appears

Where he finds it open to

Where the Self-Taught Man suggests
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?

Purȃtre; a purveyor

Purelle; a pure woman

Purȃler; to purify

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

A glass of beer

A stone

Paper on the ground

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

Animal imagery

Dream-like imagery

Visceral, bodily imagery

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

10 years

20 years

It's unclear

Since Anny left him
20 Antoine compares his work in history to what?

Losing a memory

Writing a novel

Travelling

Composing a song
21 What kind of old shop window is still visible on the "Little Prado" after its gentrification?

A banker's

A homeowner's association's

A bakery's

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

The president of France

The French King

Monks

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 tell

Lie or die

Live or die

Write or sing
24 On Sunday morning, who do the wealthy citizens surround?

The president of the Chamber of Commerce

The president of France

A worker who has fainted

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

A song on the gramophone

Cars on the street

A flirtatious conversation

A poetry reading

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