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 preface

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

The Far East

North Africa

America

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

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

Omniscient third-person

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

A second-person dialogue between Antoine and Anny
4 Why does Antoine choose to write his diary?

To trace his impressions after a strange experience

To work out historical problems

To publish them later

To remember Anny, who has written him recently
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?

Himself

A statuette

A fire

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

A history

A sculpture

A song

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

Ask him to play

Skip stones further than he could

Laugh at him

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

Antoine

Ogier P.

We don't know

Hogan 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

Mimicry

Dancing

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

Romance

Philosophical novels

Historical novels

Thrillers
13 Antoine describes a mirror as what?

Useless

Golden

A friend

A trap
14 Where does Antoine begin reading Eugenie Grandet?

Where he left off reading

Where he finds it open to

Where a character inspired by the Marquis appears

Where the Self-Taught Man suggests
15 When Antoine runs into Lucie on the Rue Noir, he describes her as looking like what?

Beautiful

A prostitute

Totally alone

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

Purȃler; to purify

Purelle; a pure woman

Purȃtre; a purveyor

Purȃtre; pure-ish
17 What does Antoine find himself strangely unable to touch?

A glass of beer

Paper on the ground

A stone

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

Dream-like imagery

Animal imagery

Classical imagery

Visceral, bodily imagery
19 How long has Antoine been working on his history?

20 years

Since Anny left him

It's unclear

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

Travelling

Composing a song

Writing a novel

Losing a memory
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)?

Wealthy citizens

The president of France

Monks

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

Live or tell

Live or die

Lie or die

Write or sing
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?

Cars on the street

A poetry reading

A flirtatious conversation

A song on the gramophone

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