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