Nausea Quizzes

Nausea Quiz 1

1 What frames the majority of Nausea?

A fictional Editors' Note

A frame narrator in a café

A fictional preface

Nothing; it moves directly into Antoine's writing
2 Where did Antoine NOT travel before coming to Bouville?

The Far East

America

North Africa

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 publish them later

To remember Anny, who has written him recently

To work out historical problems

To trace his impressions after a strange experience
5 How do the undated pages end?

With Antoine suffering from nausea

With Antoine deciding to write a novel

With Antoine deciding to see Anny

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

Himself

A fire

A book

A statuette
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?

Laugh at him

Skip stones further than he could

Ask him to play

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

We don't know

Antoine

Ogier P.

Hogan 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?

Fighting

Dancing

Mimicry

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

Philosophical novels

Romance

Historical novels

Thrillers
13 Antoine describes a mirror as what?

A trap

Useless

A friend

Golden
14 Where does Antoine begin reading Eugenie Grandet?

Where the Self-Taught Man suggests

Where he left off reading

Where a character inspired by the Marquis appears

Where he finds it open to
15 When Antoine runs into Lucie on the Rue Noir, he describes her as looking like what?

Beautiful

Totally alone

A stone

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

Purȃtre; pure-ish

Purȃtre; a purveyor

Purelle; a pure woman

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

A glass of beer

Paper on the ground

Lucie

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

Visceral, bodily imagery

Dream-like 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

Composing a song

Losing a memory

Travelling
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)?

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?

Lie or die

Live or tell

Write or sing

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

The president of the Chamber of Commerce

A worker who has fainted

The president of France

The mayor of Bouville
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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