Quiz  /  French Writers Quiz

  • 1. 
    Which French writer wrote that “Catholicism is inadmissible, Protestantism is intolerable; and I feel profoundly Christian”?

  • Marcel Proust
  • André Gide
  • Voltaire
  • Jean-Paul Sartre

  • 2. 
    Which French poet abandoned his wife and infant son to travel with fellow poet Arthur Rimbaud?

  • Stéphane Mallarmé
  • Voltaire
  • Gustave Kahn
  • Paul Verlaine

  • 3. 
    Which of the following French writers is considered the greatest innovator of form of his post-World War II generation?

  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Voltaire
  • Georges Perec
  • Roland Barthes

  • 4. 
    Which of the following is a French poet noted for several works championing women?

  • Voltaire
  • Hildegard of Bingen
  • Joan of Arc
  • Christine de Pisan

  • 5. 
    What Frenchman wrote a classic account of early 19th-century American civilization?

  • Gustave Flaubert
  • Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Voltaire

  • 6. 
    Which French author wrote the Claudine novels (1900–03), only to have her husband publish them as his own work?

  • Anaïs Nin
  • Voltaire
  • Marguerite Yourcenar
  • Colette

  • 7. 
    Which French writer is regarded as the chief precursor of realism in the novel?

  • Voltaire
  • Honoré de Balzac
  • Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
  • Marcel Proust
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