J. M. G. Le Clézio - Quiz
J M G
  • 1. Which of these is a travel diary written by J. M. G. Le Clézio?
A) Voyage à Rodrigues
B) Désert
C) La Ronde
D) Mondo
  • 2. Which title is categorized as a travel diary in the provided text?
A) Villa Aurore
B) Gens des nuages
C) Lullaby
D) Balaabilou
  • 3. Which of these works was translated into French by Le Clézio?
A) Orlamonde
B) La Grande Vie
C) Voyage au pays des arbres
D) Les Prophéties du Chilam Balam
  • 4. Which work was translated into French by the author?
A) Notes Sur Le Cinématographe
B) Peuple du ciel
C) Relation de Michoacan
D) Le Llano en Flammes
  • 5. Which collection did Le Clézio translate into French?
A) Les Prophéties du Chilam Balam
B) Les Bergers
C) La Montagne du dieu vivant
D) Sirandanes
  • 6. In what year was 'Voyage au pays des arbres' published?
A) 1981
B) 1980
C) 1978
D) 1982
  • 7. Which story is included in 'Mondo et autres histoires' according to the text?
A) Voyage à Rodrigues
B) Raga
C) Villa Aurore
D) Lullaby
  • 8. Which of these pairs of stories was published together in 1981?
A) Villa Aurore, suivi de Orlamonde
B) Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer, suivi de La Montagne du dieu vivant
C) La Grande Vie, suivi de Peuple du ciel
D) Peuple du ciel, suivi de Les Bergers
  • 9. Which pair of stories was published in 1982?
A) Peuple du ciel, suivi de Les Bergers
B) Balaabilou, suivi de Désert
C) Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer, suivi de La Montagne du dieu vivant
D) Villa Aurore, suivi de Orlamonde
  • 10. When was 'Villa Aurore, suivi de Orlamonde' published?
A) 1985
B) 1978
C) 1980
D) 1990
  • 11. Which work consists of extracts from 'Désert'?
A) La Grande Vie
B) Balaabilou
C) Lullaby
D) Les Bergers
  • 12. Which work includes 'La Grande Vie' as an extract from 'La Ronde et autres faits divers'?
A) La Grande Vie, suivi de Peuple du ciel
B) Villa Aurore, suivi de Orlamonde
C) Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer
D) Voyage au pays des arbres
  • 13. Le Clézio wrote a French-language preface for a collection of short stories by which author?
A) Robert Bresson
B) Mondo
C) Chilam Balam
D) Juan Rulfo
  • 14. Le Clézio wrote a preface for which filmmaker's book?
A) Chilam Balam
B) Robert Bresson
C) Juan Rulfo
D) None
  • 15. In what year was Le Clézio made Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur?
A) 1985
B) 1996
C) 1991
D) 2009
  • 16. When was Le Clézio promoted to Officier of the Légion d'honneur?
A) 1996
B) 1991
C) 1978
D) 2009
  • 17. In what year was he made Officier of the Ordre national du Mérite?
A) 1985
B) 1996
C) 2009
D) 1991
  • 18. In which city is the Lycée Français J. M. G. Le Clézio located?
A) Paris
B) Mexico City
C) Nice
D) Port Vila
  • 19. At what age did J. M. G. Le Clézio begin writing?
A) Seven
B) Five
C) Ten
D) Twelve
  • 20. What was the subject of Le Clézio's first work?
A) The desert
B) Childhood
C) Language
D) The sea
  • 21. How old was Le Clézio when he achieved success with his first novel?
A) 28
B) 25
C) 23
D) 21
  • 22. What is the English title of Le Clézio's first novel?
A) The Interrogation
B) In the Forest of Paradoxes
C) The Desert
D) The Rebel
  • 23. Which prize did The Interrogation (Le Procès-Verbal) win?
A) Nobel Prize
B) Prix Renaudot
C) Prix Goncourt
D) Grand Prix Paul Morand
  • 24. How many books has Le Clézio published?
A) Exactly twenty
B) Less than ten
C) More than thirty-six
D) Exactly fifty
  • 25. Which of these is NOT a genre of work written by Le Clézio?
A) Scientific journals
B) Essays
C) Short stories
D) Children's books
  • 26. What themes did Le Clézio explore between 1963 and 1975?
A) History, archaeology, and architecture
B) Insanity, language, nature, and writing
C) Finance, technology, and industry
D) Politics, war, and religion
  • 27. Which contemporary authors did Le Clézio align with during his experimental phase?
A) Claude Simon and Stig Dagerman
B) Gao Xingjian and Sully Prudhomme
C) Georges Perec and Michel Butor
D) Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze
  • 28. Which philosophers praised Le Clézio's persona as an innovator?
A) Claude Simon and Gao Xingjian
B) Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze
C) Georges Perec and Michel Butor
D) Paul Morand and Stig Dagerman
  • 29. What change occurred in Le Clézio's style in the late 1970s?
A) He switched to writing in English
B) He stopped writing fiction
C) He abandoned experimentation
D) He began writing poetry exclusively
  • 30. What themes attracted a broader audience to Le Clézio's later work?
A) Native American mythology
B) Childhood, adolescence, and travelling
C) Insanity and formal experimentation
D) War and political corruption
  • 31. Which novel won the first Grand Prix Paul Morand in 1980?
A) Dans la forêt des paradoxes
B) The Sea
C) Desert
D) The Interrogation
  • 32. According to a 1994 magazine survey, what percentage of readers considered him the greatest living French-language writer?
A) 25 per cent
B) 13 per cent
C) 5 per cent
D) 50 per cent
  • 33. In how many languages have Le Clézio's works been translated?
A) Over 100
B) Exactly 10
C) Over 30
D) Only 5
  • 34. In what year did Le Clézio receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) 1985
B) 2008
C) 1994
D) 2000
  • 35. To whom did Le Clézio attribute the title of his Nobel lecture?
A) Stig Dagerman
B) Georges Perec
C) Claude Simon
D) Paul Morand
  • 36. What subject did Le Clézio attack in his Nobel acceptance lecture?
A) Native American mythology
B) Formal experimentation
C) Information poverty
D) The environment
  • 37. Who was the previous French citizen to win the Nobel Prize in Literature before Le Clézio?
A) Sully Prudhomme
B) Claude Simon
C) Paul Morand
D) Gao Xingjian
  • 38. What year was J. M. G. Le Clézio born?
A) 1938
B) 1940
C) 1945
D) 1942
  • 39. Which prestigious prize did Le Clézio receive in 2008?
A) Prix Renaudot
B) Prix Goncourt
C) Nobel Prize in Literature
D) Pulitzer Prize
  • 40. In which city was Le Clézio born?
A) Nice
B) Mauritius
C) Nanjing
D) Paris
  • 41. What is the nationality of Le Clézio's wife, Jémia Jean?
A) French
B) Moroccan
C) Mexican
D) Mauritian
  • 42. Where was Le Clézio's father serving when Le Clézio was born?
A) Mauritius
B) Thailand
C) Nigeria
D) France
  • 43. Which tribe did Le Clézio live with in Panama between 1970 and 1974?
A) Maya
B) Purépecha
C) Aztec
D) Embera-Wounaan
  • 44. Where did Le Clézio teach French language and literature in 2007?
A) Nanjing University
B) Ewha Womans University
C) University of Perpignan
D) University of Bristol
  • 45. Why was Le Clézio expelled from Thailand during his national service?
A) Political activism
B) Failure to complete duties
C) Protesting against child prostitution
D) Illegal residency
  • 46. What is the name of Le Clézio's 1991 autobiographical novel?
A) Nice
B) Onitsha
C) The Conquest
D) The Interrogation
  • 47. Where did Le Clézio obtain his doctoral thesis in 1983?
A) University of Bristol
B) University of Perpignan
C) Nanjing University
D) University of Provence
  • 48. Which city does Le Clézio refer to as his "little fatherland"?
A) Nice
B) Mauritius
C) Albuquerque
D) Nigeria
  • 49. Which ancestral region in France do Le Clézio's ancestors originate from?
A) Nice
B) Morbihan
C) Paris
D) Brittany
  • 50. When did Le Clézio join Nanjing University as a professor?
A) 2013
B) 2010
C) 2007
D) 2008
  • 51. Which Mexican shelter director did Le Clézio defend in an article in Le Monde?
A) Mama Rosa
B) Edith
C) Frida Kahlo
D) Diego Rivera
  • 52. In what year was Le Clézio's novel 'Le Procès-verbal' published?
A) 1965
B) 1967
C) 1969
D) 1963
  • 53. Who translated the 1964 English version of 'Le Procès-verbal'?
A) Simon Watson-Taylor
B) Daphne Woodward
C) Peter Green
D) Barbara Bray
  • 54. What is the English title of 'Le Déluge'?
A) The Storm
B) The Desert
C) The Flood
D) The Giants
  • 55. Who translated 'Terra Amata' into English?
A) Carol Marks
B) Barbara Bray
C) C. Dickson
D) Alison Anderson
  • 56. Who translated the novel 'Desert'?
A) Daphne Woodward
B) Simon Watson-Taylor
C) Peter Green
D) C. Dickson
  • 57. What is the English title of 'Étoile errante'?
A) The Giants
B) Desert
C) Wandering Star
D) The Prospector
  • 58. Which novel by Le Clézio was published in 2017?
A) Ourania
B) Poisson d'or
C) Révolutions
D) Alma
  • 59. Which collection was published in 2014?
A) Tempête
B) Avers
C) Fantômes dans la rue
D) Printemps et autres saisons
  • 60. What is the English title of 'Avers'?
A) Ghosts in the Street
B) Storm
C) Fever
D) On the Wrong Side
  • 61. Which non-fiction work was published in 1993?
A) Ballaciner
B) Haï
C) L'Africain
D) Diego et Frida
  • 62. What is the English title of 'L'extase matérielle'?
A) The African
B) Material Ecstasy
C) Mydriasis
D) The Mexican Dream
  • 63. What is the English title of 'Le Rêve mexicain'?
A) On Reading as True Travel
B) The Mexican Dream
C) Material Ecstasy
D) The African
  • 64. Which of these is a non-fiction work published in 2024?
A) Ourania
B) Avers
C) Alma
D) Identité nomade
  • 65. In what year was 'L'Africain' published?
A) 2006
B) 2000
C) 2004
D) 2007
Created with That Quiz — where test making and test taking are made easy for math and other subject areas.