Nausea Quizzes

Nausea Quiz 1

1 What frames the majority of Nausea?

A fictional preface

A frame narrator in a café

Nothing; it moves directly into Antoine's writing

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

Central Europe

The Far East

America

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

A second-person dialogue between Antoine and Anny

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

Omniscient third-person

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 work out historical problems

To remember Anny, who has written him recently

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

In the middle of a sentence

With Antoine deciding to see Anny

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?

Himself

A statuette

A book

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

A novel

A song

A sculpture

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

Call for their parents

Laugh at him

Skip stones further than he could

Ask him to play
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

Bouville, France

Sartre's international travels

Le Havre
11 The Marquis was said to have a talent for what?

Dancing

Mimicry

Fighting

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

Historical novels

Romance

Thrillers

Philosophical novels
13 Antoine describes a mirror as what?

A trap

A friend

Golden

Useless
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?

Beautiful

Totally alone

A prostitute

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

Purȃtre; a purveyor

Purelle; a pure woman

Purȃtre; pure-ish

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

A stone

Paper on the ground

Lucie

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

Classical imagery

Visceral, bodily imagery

Dream-like 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

Travelling

Writing a novel

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

An insecticide shop's

A banker's

A homeowner's association's

A bakery'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

Lie or die

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

The mayor of Bouville

A worker who has fainted

The president of France

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

A poetry reading

Cars on the street

A song on the gramophone

A flirtatious conversation

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