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French Literature Trivia Quiz

Some questions about French authors and their works.

A multiple-choice quiz by swisspower. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
swisspower

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
95,850

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
2893

Last 3 plays: Guest 147 (7/10), Guest 86 (1/10), Guest 174 (7/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. What's the first name of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary? Hint

Gretta

Sophie

Rose

Emma

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who created the character of Etienne Lantier? Hint

Emile Zola

Gustave Flaubert

Honor� de Balzac

Stendhal

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who wrote "La Com�die Humaine"? Hint

Emile Zola

Honor� de Balzac

Gustave Flaubert

Stendhal

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who is the most famous Romantic French author?

Answer: ("Notre Dame de Paris")

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Question 5 of 10

5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau had the idea that humans were naturally good.

True

False

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Question 6 of 10

6. "Les sanglots longs des violons de l'automne
Blessent mon coeur d'une langueur monotone". Who wrote this? Hint

Guillaume Apollinaire

Charles Baudelaire

Paul Verlaine

Arthur Rimbaud

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Question 7 of 10

7. What French-speaking author lost an arm during WWI? Hint

Louis-Ferdinand C�line

Alain-Fournier

Marcel Proust

Blaise Cendrars

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Question 8 of 10

8. "Le Rouge et le Noir" ("Red and Black") is a novel written by Stendhal. What is the symbolism of those two colours? Hint

Red is blood and black is war

Red is the army and black is a monastery

Red is communism and black is capitalism

Red is love and black is hate

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Question 9 of 10

9. What French author of the 19th century had the foresight that man would walk on the moon one day? Hint

Victor Hugo

Mme de S�vign�

Chateaubriand

Jules Verne

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Question 10 of 10

10. Who are "Les Immortels" (The Immortals)? Hint

The French philosopher of the 18th century

Verlaine, Baudelaire and Rimbaud

Members of the French Academy

The Latin authors

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Nov 28 2024 : Guest 147: 7/10
Nov 23 2024 : Guest 86: 1/10
Nov 15 2024 : Guest 174: 7/10
Nov 10 2024 : Guest 125: 7/10
Nov 09 2024 : Guest 172: 8/10

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What's the first name of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary?

Answer: Emma

"Madame Bovary" is one of Flaubert's most famous novels.

2. Who created the character of Etienne Lantier?

Answer: Emile Zola

Lantier is the hero of "Germinal", a novel telling about the hard conditions of workers at the mines during the 19th century

3. Who wrote "La Com�die Humaine"?

Answer: Honor� de Balzac

"La Com�die Humaine" is a big collection of several novels, painting French society.

4. Who is the most famous Romantic French author?

Answer: Victor Hugo

He probably is the most famous French author ever.

5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau had the idea that humans were naturally good.

Answer: True

Rousseau wrote a novel called "Emile" from this idea.

6. "Les sanglots longs des violons de l'automne Blessent mon coeur d'une langueur monotone". Who wrote this?

Answer: Paul Verlaine

Those words were the signal for the French Resistance the day before June 6th, 1944.

7. What French-speaking author lost an arm during WWI?

Answer: Blaise Cendrars

He wrote "La Main Coup�e", a novel telling us the way it happened. He was born in La Chaux-de-Fond in Switzerland.

8. "Le Rouge et le Noir" ("Red and Black") is a novel written by Stendhal. What is the symbolism of those two colours?

Answer: Red is the army and black is a monastery

Julien Sorel, the hero of "Le Rouge et le Noir", goes to Paris and makes a career over there. He has to choose between going to the army and going to the monastery.

9. What French author of the 19th century had the foresight that man would walk on the moon one day?

Answer: Jules Verne

He wrote "De la Terre � la Lune" ("From Earth to the Moon") in 1865.

10. Who are "Les Immortels" (The Immortals)?

Answer: Members of the French Academy

The members of the French Academy are called the Immortals. That's why they are compared to gods.

Source: Author swisspower

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