Nausea Quizzes

Nausea Quiz 1

1 What frames the majority of Nausea?

A fictional Editors' Note

A fictional preface

A frame narrator in a café

Nothing; it moves directly into Antoine's writing
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?

Omniscient third-person

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
4 Why does Antoine choose to write his diary?

To publish them later

To remember Anny, who has written him recently

To trace his impressions after a strange experience

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

In the middle of a sentence

With Antoine deciding to write a novel

With Antoine suffering from nausea

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

A book

A statuette

A fire

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

A sculpture

A song

A novel

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

Ask him to play

Laugh at him

Call for their parents

Skip stones further than he could
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?

Sartre's international travels

Le Havre

Bouville, France

Paris
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?

Philosophical novels

Thrillers

Historical novels

Romance
13 Antoine describes a mirror as what?

A trap

Useless

Golden

A friend
14 Where does Antoine begin reading Eugenie Grandet?

Where the Self-Taught Man suggests

Where he finds it open to

Where a character inspired by the Marquis appears

Where he left off reading
15 When Antoine runs into Lucie on the Rue Noir, he describes her as looking like what?

A stone

Beautiful

A prostitute

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

Purȃtre; a purveyor

Purelle; a pure woman

Purȃler; to purify

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

A stone

Lucie

Paper on the ground

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

Animal imagery

Classical imagery

Visceral, bodily imagery

Dream-like imagery
19 How long has Antoine been working on his history?

Since Anny left him

20 years

It's unclear

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

Travelling

Writing a novel

Losing a memory

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

A bakery's

A homeowner's association's

A banker's

An insecticide shop's
22 Who built the Church of Saint Cecilia (Église de Sainte-Cécile)?

The president of France

The French King

Wealthy citizens

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

Live or tell

Lie or die

Live 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 president of the Chamber of Commerce

The mayor of Bouville
25 Antoine becomes disgusted after hearing what in a café?

A song on the gramophone

Cars on the street

A poetry reading

A flirtatious conversation

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