Nausea Quizzes

Nausea Quiz 1

1 What frames the majority of Nausea?

Nothing; it moves directly into Antoine's writing

A fictional preface

A frame narrator in a café

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

North Africa

The Far East

America

Central Europe
3 From what perspective is the majority of Nausea told?

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

A second-person dialogue between Antoine and Anny

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

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

To work out historical problems

To trace his impressions after a strange experience

To remember Anny, who has written him recently

To publish them later
5 How do the undated pages end?

With Antoine deciding to write a novel

With Antoine deciding to see Anny

In the middle of a sentence

With Antoine suffering from nausea
6 What does Antoine remember looking at when Mercier offers to take him on an expedition?

Himself

A book

A statuette

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?

Laugh at him

Call for their parents

Ask him to play

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

Hogan P.

Antoine

We don't know

Ogier P.
10 What likely inspired Sartre's Bouville?

Paris

Sartre's international travels

Le Havre

Bouville, France
11 The Marquis was said to have a talent for what?

Writing

Mimicry

Dancing

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

Romance

Historical novels

Philosophical novels

Thrillers
13 Antoine describes a mirror as what?

A friend

Golden

Useless

A trap
14 Where does Antoine begin reading Eugenie Grandet?

Where he finds it open to

Where he left off reading

Where the Self-Taught Man suggests

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?

Totally alone

A stone

A prostitute

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

Purȃtre; a purveyor

Purȃtre; pure-ish

Purelle; a pure woman

Purȃler; to purify
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?

Classical imagery

Dream-like imagery

Visceral, bodily imagery

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

Since Anny left him

10 years

It's unclear

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

Composing a song

Writing a novel

Travelling

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

A homeowner's association's

A bakery's

An insecticide shop's

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

The French King

Wealthy citizens

Monks

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?

Live or die

Write or sing

Live or tell

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

A worker who has fainted

The mayor of Bouville

The president of the Chamber of Commerce

The president of France
25 Antoine becomes disgusted after hearing what in a café?

A song on the gramophone

A flirtatious conversation

A poetry reading

Cars on the street

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