La Bête Humaine - Quiz
  • 1. Who is the author of 'La Bête Humaine'?
A) Victor Hugo
B) Gustave Flaubert
C) Marcel Proust
D) Émile Zola
  • 2. What is the English translation of 'La Bête Humaine'?
A) The Savage Beast
B) The Wild Animal
C) The Beast Within
D) The Human Beast
  • 3. In which literary genre does 'La Bête Humaine' belong?
A) Naturalism
B) Romanticism
C) Modernism
D) Realism
  • 4. Who is the main character in 'La Bête Humaine'?
A) Étienne Lantier
B) François Mauriac
C) Jacques Lantier
D) Jean Valjean
  • 5. Who is the inspector investigating a series of murders in 'La Bête Humaine'?
A) Roubaud
B) Javert
C) Monsieur Homais
D) Le Corbeau
  • 6. In what year was 'La Bête Humaine' first published?
A) 1920
B) 1900
C) 1890
D) 1850
  • 7. What is the psychological term for the beast within each human, as depicted in 'La Bête Humaine'?
A) Id
B) Persona
C) Superego
D) Ego
  • 8. Who is Jacques Lantier's love interest in 'La Bête Humaine'?
A) Emma Bovary
B) Séverine Roubaud
C) Cosette
D) Anna Karenina
  • 9. Who directed the 1938 film adaptation of 'La Bête Humaine'?
A) Jean Renoir
B) François Truffaut
C) Federico Fellini
D) Alfred Hitchcock
  • 10. What is the tragic flaw of Jacques Lantier in the novel?
A) Lack of ambition
B) Greed
C) Naivety
D) Violent impulses
  • 11. In which series does 'La Bête humaine' belong?
A) The French Classics Collection
B) The Railway Chronicles
C) Les Rougon-Macquart
D) The Human Condition Series
  • 12. Who is Jacques Lantier in relation to Gervaise Macquart?
A) Brother
B) Cousin
C) Son
D) Nephew
  • 13. What is the ISBN of the 2007 Penguin translation of 'La Bête humaine'?
A) 978-0-199-53866-9
B) 978-0-140-44327-1
C) 978-0-140-44963-1
D) No ISBN is available for this edition.
  • 14. When did the first three chapters of 'La Bête humaine' appear in La Vie populaire?
A) November 1891.
B) March 1890.
C) 2 March 1890.
D) 14 November 1889.
  • 15. What is the name of Lantier's train affectionately dubbed?
A) La Vitesse
B) Le Monstre
C) L'Éclair
D) La Lison
  • 16. What role does Judge Grandmorin have?
A) Railway engineer
B) Former director of the railway company and judge
C) Stationmaster at Le Havre
D) A wealthy businessman with no official title
  • 17. What is the ISBN of the 1996 Oxford University Press translation of 'La Bête humaine'?
A) 978-0-140-44327-1
B) 978-0-199-53866-9
C) No ISBN is available for this edition.
D) 978-0-140-44963-1
  • 18. What affliction does Jacques Lantier suffer from?
A) Amnesia
B) Paranoia about being followed
C) A fear of trains
D) Hereditary madness turning sexual desires into violence
  • 19. Which translation of 'La Bète humaine' was published by Penguin in 1977?
A) Translated by Roger Pearson.
B) Translated by Robert Godfrey Goodyear and P.J.R. Wright.
C) Translated by Alec Brown.
D) Translated by Leonard Tancock.
  • 20. What does Lantier do after Séverine's murder?
A) Begins a new career as a writer
B) Initiates an affair with Pecqueux's girlfriend
C) Leaves France forever
D) Turns himself in to the police
  • 21. What does Séverine suggest to Lantier after discovering Roubaud's actions?
A) Start a new life together in Paris
B) Sell their inherited property and escape to New York
C) Move to a different city in France
D) Confront Roubaud and demand his money back
  • 22. What does Séverine inherit from Judge Grandmorin?
A) A position at the railway company
B) Property
C) A large sum of money
D) An estate in Paris
  • 23. What does Roubaud force Séverine to do?
A) Leave Le Havre immediately
B) Sign over their property
C) Confess her love for him
D) Write a note asking for a rendezvous with Judge Grandmorin
  • 24. Which translation of 'La Bête humaine' was published by Oxford University Press in 1996?
A) Translated by Alec Brown.
B) Translated by Roger Pearson.
C) Translated by Leonard Tancock.
D) Translated by Louis Colman.
  • 25. What is the setting of 'La Bête humaine'?
A) A French naval ship
B) Railway line between Paris and Le Havre in the late 1860s
C) The streets of Paris during a festival
D) A small village in rural France
  • 26. What is the ISBN of the 1977 Penguin translation of 'La Bête humaine'?
A) No ISBN is available for this edition.
B) 978-0-140-44963-1
C) 978-0-140-44327-1
D) 978-0-199-53866-9
  • 27. What does Flore do in her jealousy?
A) Leaves town
B) Confesses everything to Roubaud
C) Stabs Séverine
D) Plots to derail Lantier's train
  • 28. What happens to Lantier and Pecqueux?
A) They are arrested for another murder
B) They escape together to start a new life
C) They fall to their deaths after a fight on the moving train
D) Lantier kills Pecqueux and flees
  • 29. What is the relationship between Lantier and Étienne Lantier?
A) Uncle and nephew
B) Father and son
C) Brothers
D) Cousins
  • 30. Who is accused alongside Roubaud for Séverine's murder?
A) Cabuche
B) Judge Grandmorin
C) Phasie
D) Flore
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