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Mondo Arthur Rimbaud Part 1 Trivia Quiz

Questions covering my favorite poet, the man with wind at the soles of his feet, the adolescent genius, the alchemist of the word, the infernal bridegroom... your friend and mine... Arthur Rimbaud.

A multiple-choice quiz by dorian_june. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
dorian_june

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
157,093

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Difficult

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Question 1 of 10

1. What is the name of the female character in Rimbaud's short story "A Heart Under a Cassock"? Hint

Christiana Coliette

Guinevieve Laboriette

Thimothina Labinette

Marie-Anne Orleans

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Question 2 of 10

2. What are the first eight words of Rimbaud's prose poem that begins his collection of prose poems entitled "Illuminations"? Hint

After the idea of the flood had subsided

After the idea of the storm had passed

After the thought of the deluge had receded

After the idea of the cataclysm had faded

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Question 3 of 10

3. Besides himself, whom did Rimbaud write "A Season in Hell" about? Hint

Charles Cros

Germaine Nouveau

Paul Verlaine

Stephane Mallarme

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Question 4 of 10

4. What was the timespan that Rimbaud took to write "A Season in Hell"? Hint

April-August 1873

August-December 1873

April-June 1872

September- November 1872

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Question 5 of 10

5. In the summer of 1873 Rimbaud was shot by another poet, where was he shot? Hint

his right hand

his chest

his left leg

his left hand

6. Name the poem that Rimbaud sent to Paris before he arrived there at 16 for the third time. This poem he sent, along with seven others, and was considered the crowning achievement up to that point in his career. Hint

Memoire

My Stolen Heart

Eternity

The Drunken Boat

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Question 7 of 10

7. Rimbaud had a very close friend named George Izambard. The poem "The Lice Seekers" was written about which of Izambard's relatives? Hint

his three cousins

his three aunts

his three children

his three sisters

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which of these four poems by Rimbaud deal with alchemy? Hint

Golden Age

Sensation

A Winter Dream

Vowels

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Question 9 of 10

9. What was Rimbaud's nickname for his mother whom he disliked and some say hated? Hint

the mouth of hell

the mouth of darkness

the mouth of pain

the mouth of war

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Question 10 of 10

10. Legend has it that a famous french author once called Rimbaud "an infant Shakespeare". Who was this author? Hint

Marcel Proust

Alexander Dumas pere

Stephane Mallarme

Victor Hugo

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What is the name of the female character in Rimbaud's short story "A Heart Under a Cassock"?

Answer: Thimothina Labinette

Throughout the story Rimbaud changes his character's name slightly.

2. What are the first eight words of Rimbaud's prose poem that begins his collection of prose poems entitled "Illuminations"?

Answer: After the idea of the flood had subsided

The "Illuminations" and 99% of Rimbaud's work were published after he died. Only one of his mature poems was published while he was alive, and a few pieces of his schoolwork.

3. Besides himself, whom did Rimbaud write "A Season in Hell" about?

Answer: Paul Verlaine

His relationship with Paul Verlaine is one of the most famous and infamous couplings in all of literature. In fact, an entire motion picture was even made based on the three years they were together, called "Total Eclipse".

4. What was the timespan that Rimbaud took to write "A Season in Hell"?

Answer: April-August 1873

Five months is brief enough for such a perfected, minute work, but almost half of the five months he was embroiled in hardships involving Paul Verlaine, including being shot by him.

5. In the summer of 1873 Rimbaud was shot by another poet, where was he shot?

Answer: his left hand

Verlaine shot Rimbaud because Rimbaud wanted to go back to Paris and Verlaine didn't want that, and Verlaine being already a little mentally disturbed at this point, he was pushed over the edge by this news and lost it.

Answer: The Drunken Boat

What's astonishing is that Rimbaud wrote all of his verse and prose before he was twenty years old, "The Drunken Boat" (a 100 line poem) being written when Rimbaud was only 16.

7. Rimbaud had a very close friend named George Izambard. The poem "The Lice Seekers" was written about which of Izambard's relatives?

Answer: his three aunts

Rimbaud hated cleanliness, as did other geniuses of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and he hated to bathe and wash his hair, and so therefore had lice frequently. The poem was about Izambard's aunts picking the lice out of Rimbaud's hair.

8. Which of these four poems by Rimbaud deal with alchemy?

Answer: Vowels

In "Vowels", Rimbaud assigns a color to each of the vowels. These were: A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue.

9. What was Rimbaud's nickname for his mother whom he disliked and some say hated?

Answer: the mouth of darkness

Rimbaud, at times, strongly disliked his mother, and three times before he was 16 had run away.

10. Legend has it that a famous french author once called Rimbaud "an infant Shakespeare". Who was this author?

Answer: Victor Hugo

Some say this is apocryphal, but who knows. It's nice to believe it is true.

Source: Author dorian_june

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