Nausea Quizzes

Nausea Quiz 1

1 What frames the majority of Nausea?

A frame narrator in a café

Nothing; it moves directly into Antoine's writing

A fictional Editors' Note

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

America

The Far East

Central Europe

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 publish them later

To trace his impressions after a strange experience

To remember Anny, who has written him recently

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

With Antoine suffering from nausea

With Antoine deciding to write a novel

In the middle of a sentence

With Antoine deciding to see Anny
6 What does Antoine remember looking at when Mercier offers to take him on an expedition?

A statuette

A fire

A book

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

A sculpture

A history

A song

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

Skip stones further than he could

Call for their parents

Ask him to play

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

Hogan P.

Antoine

Ogier P.

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

Le Havre

Paris

Bouville, France

Sartre's international travels
11 The Marquis was said to have a talent for what?

Writing

Fighting

Dancing

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

Thrillers

Philosophical novels

Romance

Historical novels
13 Antoine describes a mirror as what?

Golden

Useless

A trap

A friend
14 Where does Antoine begin reading Eugenie Grandet?

Where a character inspired by the Marquis appears

Where the Self-Taught Man suggests

Where he left off reading

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

A stone

Totally alone

A prostitute

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?

A glass of beer

Lucie

A stone

Paper on the ground
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?

It's unclear

Since Anny left him

20 years

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

Losing a memory

Travelling

Composing a song

Writing a novel
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

Wealthy citizens

The French King

Monks
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 die

Live or tell

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

The president of the Chamber of Commerce

The president of France

The mayor of Bouville

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

A poetry reading

A song on the gramophone

A flirtatious conversation

Cars on the street

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