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?

Central Europe

America

North Africa

The Far East
3 From what perspective is the majority of Nausea told?

A limited-third person narrator, who found Antoine's diaries

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

A second-person dialogue between Antoine and Anny

Omniscient third-person
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 publish them later

To work out historical problems
5 How do the undated pages end?

With Antoine suffering from nausea

In the middle of a sentence

With Antoine deciding to see Anny

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

Himself

A statuette

A book

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

A song

A novel

A history

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

Skip stones further than he could

Laugh at him

Ask him to play

Call for their parents
9 What is the Self-Taught Man's real name?

We don't know

Antoine

Hogan P.

Ogier P.
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?

Fighting

Writing

Dancing

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

Romance

Historical novels

Thrillers

Philosophical novels
13 Antoine describes a mirror as what?

Useless

Golden

A friend

A trap
14 Where does Antoine begin reading Eugenie Grandet?

Where a character inspired by the Marquis appears

Where the Self-Taught Man suggests

Where he finds it open to

Where he left off reading
15 When Antoine runs into Lucie on the Rue Noir, he describes her as looking like what?

Totally alone

Beautiful

A stone

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

Purȃtre; a purveyor

Purȃler; to purify

Purȃtre; pure-ish

Purelle; a pure woman
17 What does Antoine find himself strangely unable to touch?

A stone

A glass of beer

Paper on the ground

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

Classical imagery

Visceral, bodily imagery

Animal imagery

Dream-like imagery
19 How long has Antoine been working on his history?

20 years

It's unclear

10 years

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

Composing a song

Travelling

Losing a memory

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

An insecticide shop's

A homeowner's association's

A bakery's

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

Wealthy citizens

Monks

The French King

The president of France
23 When he thinks about his experience with Edna, Antoine decides that one has an option to do what or what?

Lie or die

Live or die

Write or sing

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

A worker who has fainted

The president of France

The mayor of Bouville

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

A flirtatious conversation

Cars on the street

A song on the gramophone

A poetry reading

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