Nausea Quizzes

Nausea Quiz 1

1 What frames the majority of Nausea?

A fictional preface

Nothing; it moves directly into Antoine's writing

A frame narrator in a café

A fictional Editors' Note
2 Where did Antoine NOT travel before coming to Bouville?

Central Europe

America

The Far East

North Africa
3 From what perspective is the majority of Nausea told?

A second-person dialogue between Antoine and Anny

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

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

Omniscient third-person
4 Why does Antoine choose to write his diary?

To trace his impressions after a strange experience

To publish them later

To remember Anny, who has written him recently

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

With Antoine deciding to see Anny

In the middle of a sentence

With Antoine suffering from nausea

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

A fire

Himself

A book

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

A sculpture

A song

A novel

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

Call for their parents

Laugh at him

Ask him to play

Skip stones further than he could
9 What is the Self-Taught Man's real name?

We don't know

Hogan P.

Ogier P.

Antoine
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?

Mimicry

Fighting

Writing

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

Romance

Thrillers

Historical novels

Philosophical novels
13 Antoine describes a mirror as what?

A trap

Golden

A friend

Useless
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?

A prostitute

Totally alone

A stone

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

Purȃtre; pure-ish

Purelle; a pure woman

Purȃler; to purify

Purȃtre; a purveyor
17 What does Antoine find himself strangely unable to touch?

Paper on the ground

A stone

Lucie

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

Animal imagery

Visceral, bodily imagery

Classical imagery

Dream-like 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

Losing a memory

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

An insecticide shop's

A bakery's

A banker's

A homeowner's association'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?

Write or sing

Live or tell

Lie or die

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

The mayor of Bouville

The president of France

A worker who has fainted

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

A song on the gramophone

A flirtatious conversation

Cars on the street

A poetry reading

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