Quiz sur la littérature française

Questions and Answers

• Question 1: Who is the leader of the Parnassian school?

  • Answer: Gautier

• Question 2: Which author is not a playwright?

  • Answer: Gide

• Question 3: Which author is not a surrealist?

  • Answer: Proust

• Question 4: Which author is an 18th-century poet?

  • Answer: Chénier

• Question 5: What kind of writer is Flaubert?

  • Answer: Realist

• Question 6: Which author is not a poet?

  • Answer: Montaigne

• Question 7: What type of poem uses a quatrain?

  • Answer: Ballade

• Question 8: Which work is not a novel?

  • Answer: Candide

• Question 9: What is the first French literary movement?

  • Answer: Courtly love

• Question 10: Which poem contains the line "Frères humains qui après nous vivrez?"

  • Answer: The Ballad of the Hanged Men

• Question 11: Which author is not from the 16th century?

  • Answer: La Bruyère

• Question 12: Which poet belongs to the Pléiade?

  • Answer: Du Bellay

• Question 13: Which work is an introspective humanist essay?

  • Answer: Essays

• Question 14: Who wrote "Fais ce que tu voudras"?

  • Answer: Rabelais

• Question 15: Who wrote "Contes de ma mère l'Oye"?

  • Answer: Perrault

• Question 16: In which play is Harpagon used to criticize the bourgeoisie?

  • Answer: The Miser

• Question 17: Which literary genre follows the Three Unities?

  • Answer: Tragedy

• Question 18: In which text is the phrase "La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure" found?

  • Answer: The Wolf and the Lamb

• Question 19: Which author explores the relationship between power and justice?

  • Answer: Pascal

• Question 20: Which play contains the line "Hé bien! Régnez, cruel, contentez votre gloire"?

  • Answer: Berenice

• Question 21: Which movement is characterized by lyricism and nature but lacks political aims?

  • Answer: Pre-Romanticism

• Question 22: Which author uses dialogues in their novels?

  • Answer: Diderot

• Question 23: Which novel critiques European society from a foreign perspective?

  • Answer: Persian Letters

• Question 24: Which author belongs to multiple literary movements?

  • Answer: Rousseau

• Question 25: Which author criticizes religious intolerance?

  • Answer: Voltaire

• Question 26: In which work does Pangloss appear?

  • Answer: Candide

• Question 27: Which epistolary novel critiques the aristocracy?

  • Answer: Dangerous Liaisons

• Question 28: Which text contains the phrase "Il n'y a que les petits hommes qui redoutent les petits écrits"?

  • Answer: The Marriage of Figaro

• Question 29: Which author questions political power and violence?

  • Answer: Diderot

• Question 30: Who wrote "Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'égalité parmi les hommes"?

  • Answer: Rousseau

• Question 31: Which poem contains the metaphor "La nature est un temple"?

  • Answer: Correspondances

• Question 32: Which novel marks the transition from Romanticism to Realism?

  • Answer: The Charterhouse of Parma

• Question 33: Which movement is associated with "l'art pour l'art"?

  • Answer: Parnasse

• Question 34: Which play challenged traditional dramatic forms?

  • Answer: Ubu the King

• Question 35: Which novel is set in a coal mine context?

  • Answer: Germinal

• Question 36: Which literary movement links human behavior to social context?

  • Answer: Naturalism

• Question 37: Who wrote "Ô temps, suspends ton vol!"?

  • Answer: Lamartine

• Question 38: Which character is considered an anti-hero?

  • Answer: Lorenzo

• Question 39: Which author is not a Decadent?

  • Answer: Sartre

• Question 40: What type of theatre is derived from existentialism?

  • Answer: Absurd theatre

• Question 41: Which literary movement emerged in 1924?

  • Answer: Surrealism

• Question 42: Who is an author of Autofiction?

  • Answer: Le Clézio

• Question 43: Who wrote "Longtemps je me suis couché de bonne heure"?

  • Answer: Proust

• Question 44: Which play features Electra's monologue?

  • Answer: The Flies

• Question 45: Which war-related novel involves Lola and Ferdinand?

  • Answer: Journey to the End of the Night

• Question 46: Which text depicts a character who has her hair cut to surprise her family?

  • Answer: The First Man

• Question 47: Which Nouveau Roman is written in the second person plural?

  • Answer: The Modification

• Question 48: Which Nouveau Roman author explores the absence of referent?

  • Answer: Sarraute

• Question 49: Which surrealist author explored "The Wolf and the Lamb"?

  • Answer: Queneau

• Question 50: Which autofiction depicts WWII childhood?

  • Answer: The Hunger Tune

• Question 51: Which novel uses multiple narrators?

  • Answer: The Stranger

• Question 52: Which novel depicts social class change?

  • Answer: Empty Rooms

Testez vos connaissances sur la littérature française, allant des poètes du 18ème siècle aux mouvements littéraires. Ce quiz explore divers auteurs et leurs contributions, ainsi que des formes de poésie spécifiques. Êtes-vous prêt à relever le défi?