Quiz  /  Exploring French Literature Quiz

  • 1. 
    Which French dramatist and historiographer is renowned for his mastery of French classical tragedy?

  • Jean Racine
  • Molière
  • Jean Giraudoux
  • Charles Nodier

  • 2. 
    Which novel by Émile Zola focuses on the hardships of coal miners?

  • Germinal
  • A Priest in the House
  • The Human Beast
  • Nana

  • 3. 
    Which French poet saw a remarkable similarity between his own temperament and that of Edgar Allan Poe and translated a number of Poe’s stories into French?

  • Charles Baudelaire
  • François Villon
  • Stéphane Mallarmé
  • Arthur Rimbaud

  • 4. 
    What French author was tried for the alleged immorality of his novel Madame Bovary?

  • Guy de Maupassant
  • Marcel Proust
  • Gustave Flaubert
  • Joris-Karl Huysmans

  • 5. 
    Where was the writer Albert Camus born?

  • France
  • Belgium
  • Algeria
  • Switzerland

  • 6. 
    Whose play The Bald Soprano helped inaugurate the Theatre of the Absurd?

  • Albert Camus’s
  • Samuel Beckett’s
  • Jean Genet’s
  • Eugène Ionesco’s

  • 7. 
    Which French writer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964 but declined to accept it?

  • Romain Rolland
  • Anatole France
  • André Gide
  • Jean-Paul Sartre

  • 8. 
    Of whom did Gustave Flaubert say, “He’s my disciple and I love him like a son”?

  • Alexandre Dumas
  • Marcel Proust
  • Émile Zola
  • Guy de Maupassant
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