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

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

Omniscient third-person

A second-person dialogue between Antoine and Anny

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 remember Anny, who has written him recently

To work out historical problems

To publish them later
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 statuette

Himself

A book

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

A novel

A song

A sculpture
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?
We don't know

Ogier P.

Antoine

Hogan P.
10 What likely inspired Sartre's Bouville?
Sartre's international travels

Le Havre

Bouville, France

Paris
11 The Marquis was said to have a talent for what?
Dancing

Fighting

Writing

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

Romance

Historical novels

Thrillers
13 Antoine describes a mirror as what?
Golden

A friend

A trap

Useless
14 Where does Antoine begin reading Eugenie Grandet?
Where the Self-Taught Man suggests

Where he finds it open to

Where he left off reading

Where a character inspired by the Marquis appears
15 When Antoine runs into Lucie on the Rue Noir, he describes her as looking like what?
A stone

A prostitute

Beautiful

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

Purȃtre; pure-ish

Purȃtre; a purveyor

Purȃler; to purify
17 What does Antoine find himself strangely unable to touch?
A stone

Lucie

A glass of beer

Paper on the ground
18 In Nausea, which kind of imagery does Sartre not use often?
Dream-like imagery

Animal imagery

Classical imagery

Visceral, bodily 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

Writing a novel

Losing a memory

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

An insecticide shop's

A homeowner's association's

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

Monks

Wealthy citizens

The French King
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 mayor of Bouville

The president of France

A worker who has fainted
25 Antoine becomes disgusted after hearing what in a café?
A poetry reading

A flirtatious conversation

Cars on the street

A song on the gramophone

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