Nausea Quizzes

Nausea Quiz 1

1 What frames the majority of Nausea?
A frame narrator in a café

A fictional preface

A fictional Editors' Note

Nothing; it moves directly into Antoine's writing
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?
Omniscient third-person

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
4 Why does Antoine choose to write his diary?
To publish them later

To trace his impressions after a strange experience

To work out historical problems

To remember Anny, who has written him recently
5 How do the undated pages end?
With Antoine deciding to see Anny

With Antoine suffering from nausea

With Antoine deciding to write a novel

In the middle of a sentence
6 What does Antoine remember looking at when Mercier offers to take him on an expedition?
A statuette

A book

Himself

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

A song

A novel

A sculpture
8 When he skips a stone near them, children react how to Antoine?
Ask him to play

Skip stones further than he could

Call for their parents

Laugh at him
9 What is the Self-Taught Man's real name?
We don't know

Antoine

Hogan P.

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

Sartre's international travels

Bouville, France

Paris
11 The Marquis was said to have a talent for what?
Writing

Fighting

Mimicry

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

Historical novels

Romance

Thrillers
13 Antoine describes a mirror as what?
A friend

A trap

Golden

Useless
14 Where does Antoine begin reading Eugenie Grandet?
Where the Self-Taught Man suggests

Where a character inspired by the Marquis appears

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?
Totally alone

A prostitute

A stone

Beautiful
16 What word does Antoine see on a movie poster? What does it mean?
Purȃtre; pure-ish

Purȃler; to purify

Purȃtre; a purveyor

Purelle; a pure woman
17 What does Antoine find himself strangely unable to touch?
Lucie

A glass of beer

A stone

Paper on the ground
18 In Nausea, which kind of imagery does Sartre not use often?
Dream-like imagery

Visceral, bodily imagery

Animal imagery

Classical imagery
19 How long has Antoine been working on his history?
Since Anny left him

10 years

20 years

It's unclear
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?
A homeowner's association's

An insecticide shop's

A banker's

A bakery's
22 Who built the Church of Saint Cecilia (Église de Sainte-Cécile)?
The president of France

Monks

Wealthy citizens

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?
The president of France

A worker who has fainted

The mayor of Bouville

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

A poetry reading

Cars on the street

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