 - 1. Which artistic collective produced a series of cantastoria using Les Fleurs du Mal as text?
A) Oulipo
B) Theater Oobleck
C) Don Juan
D) Theater of Cruelty
- 2. Where is Theater Oobleck based?
A) Paris
B) Montreal
C) Chicago
D) London
- 3. What is the title of the Canadian-French musical released in 2003 that mentions Les Fleurs du Mal?
A) Notre-Dame de Paris
B) Starmania
C) Don Juan
D) Les Misérables
- 4. In the musical Don Juan, who is the title character arguing with during the song Les Fleurs du Mal?
A) Don Quixote
B) Don Carlo
C) Don Alonsé
D) Don Fernando
- 5. What are Don Juan and Don Carlo arguing about in the musical Don Juan?
A) Political corruption in Paris
B) A stolen copy of Les Fleurs du Mal
C) The philosophy of T.S. Eliot
D) The self-indulgent and vain lifestyle of Don Juan
- 6. Which poet references the poem "Au Lecteur" in The Waste Land?
A) Walt Whitman
B) Roger Zelazny
C) Charles Baudelaire
D) T.S. Eliot
- 7. What is the title of the T.S. Eliot poem published in 1922 that references "Au Lecteur"?
A) The Hollow Men
B) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
C) The Waste Land
D) Ash Wednesday
- 8. Which specific line from "Au Lecteur" is referenced in The Waste Land?
A) Hypocrite reader, my master, my guide
B) You! hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable,—mon frère!
C) Sois sage, ô ma douleur
D) O mon beau ténébreux
- 9. Who included the poem "The Eyes of the Poor" in a book chapter?
A) Bernadette Lefort
B) T.S. Eliot
C) Roger Zelazny
D) David Harvey
- 10. What is the profession of David Harvey?
A) Computer scientist and novelist
B) Geographer and political economist
C) Musician and playwright
D) Literary critic and poet
- 11. What is the name of the book chapter by David Harvey that includes "The Eyes of the Poor"?
A) Flowers of Evil
B) The Political Economy of Public Space
C) Roadmarks
D) The Paris of Baudelaire
- 12. In which book by Roger Zelazny does a protagonist travel with a sentient computer disguised as Les Fleurs du mal?
A) Aku no Hana
B) Roadmarks
C) Don Juan
D) The Waste Land
- 13. Who is the protagonist of Roger Zelazny's book Roadmarks?
A) David Harvey
B) Takao Kasuga
C) Don Carlo
D) Red Dorakeen
- 14. What is the name of the sentient computer disguised as Les Fleurs du mal in Roadmarks?
A) Flowers of Evil
B) Aku no Hana
C) Au Lecteur
D) Leaves of Grass
- 15. Which Walt Whitman book inspired the disguise of another computer that befriends Flowers of Evil in Roadmarks?
A) The Waste Land
B) Roadmarks
C) Leaves of Grass
D) Les Fleurs du mal
- 16. What is the Japanese title of the 2009 manga named after Les Fleurs du mal?
A) The Waste Land
B) Aku no Hana
C) Élévation
D) Spleen et Idéal
- 17. What is the name of the main character in the manga Aku no Hana?
A) Don Carlo
B) Red Dorakeen
C) David Harvey
D) Takao Kasuga
- 18. What does the book Les Fleurs du mal represent to Takao Kasuga in Aku no Hana?
A) Adult depravity
B) Public space economics
C) Political revolution
D) Mathematical precision
- 19. In what year was the 13-episode anime adaptation of Aku no Hana aired?
A) 1922
B) 2009
C) 2013
D) 2003
- 20. How many episodes were in the 2013 anime adaptation of Aku no Hana?
A) 12
B) 13
C) 24
D) 10
- 21. Which poem's first two stanzas were included on the Voyager Golden Record?
A) Au Lecteur
B) Élévation
C) Le Vin
D) The Eyes of the Poor
- 22. How many stanzas of the poem “Élévation” were included on the Voyager Golden Record?
A) Three
B) Four
C) One
D) Two
- 23. Who read aloud the excerpt on the Voyager Golden Record?
A) Roger Zelazny
B) David Harvey
C) T.S. Eliot
D) Bernadette Lefort
- 24. What position did Bernadette Lefort hold when she recorded the poem for the Voyager Golden Record?
A) Ambassador to the United States
B) France's then UN representative
C) French Minister of Culture
D) President of the French Academy
- 25. Which poem is listed under the 1857 edition and is not categorized under Spleen et Idéal, Tableaux parisiens, Fleurs du mal, or Révolte?
A) Élévation
B) The Eyes of the Poor
C) Le Vin
D) Au Lecteur
- 26. Under which section of the 1857 edition is the poem "Le Vin" categorized?
A) Les Épaves
B) Révolte
C) Tableaux parisiens
D) Spleen et Idéal
- 27. Which of the following is listed as a later addition section alongside Les Épaves?
A) Edition of 1857
B) Spleen et Idéal
C) Tableaux parisiens
D) Edition of 1868
- 28. What is Lord Henry doing at the beginning of The Picture of Dorian Gray?
A) Writing a letter to Basil Hallward
B) Reciting poetry to the cab driver
C) Searching for a missing friend
D) Reading the book during a hansom cab ride
- 29. Whose home is Lord Henry riding to in the 1945 film The Picture of Dorian Gray?
A) Dominique Brunner's home
B) Samuel Fuller's home
C) Basil Hallward's home
D) Lucy Barnard's home
- 30. What does Lord Henry do with the book when he tells the cabbie to wait?
A) Tosses it up to him
B) Hides it under the seat
C) Leaves it in the back seat
D) Throws it out the window
- 31. Which 1947 film stars Lucille Ball searching for her missing friend?
A) Funeral Parade of Roses
B) The Picture of Dorian Gray
C) Lured
D) Pierrot le Fou
- 32. What is the name of Lucille Ball's missing friend in the 1947 film Lured?
A) Lucy Barnard
B) Basil Hallward
C) Jill
D) Monica Geller
- 33. What nickname is given to the killer in the 1947 film Lured?
A) The Flowers of Evil Killer
B) The Baudelaire Killer
C) The Paris Slasher
D) The Poet Killer
- 34. What does the killer in Lured send to taunt the police after victims are taken?
A) Copies of Les Fleurs Du Mal
B) Photographs
C) Poems
D) Personal effects
- 35. Which director's 1965 film features a character attending a dinner party in Paris?
A) Jean-Luc Godard
B) Dominique Brunner
C) Toshio Matsumoto
D) Courteney Cox
- 36. What is the title of Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film mentioned in the text?
A) Fleurs du Mal
B) Pierrot le Fou
C) Don't Deliver Us from Evil
D) Funeral Parade of Roses
- 37. Which central character in Pierrot le Fou attends a dinner party?
A) Ferdinand
B) Lord Henry
C) Jill
D) Julio
- 38. Which American filmmaker plays himself in Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le Fou?
A) Toshio Matsumoto
B) Basil Hallward
C) Dominique Brunner
D) Samuel Fuller
- 39. Whose work does Ferdinand recognize a reference to in Pierrot le Fou?
A) Lord Henry
B) Lucille Ball
C) Courteney Cox
D) Baudelaire
- 40. What subject does Ferdinand engage Samuel Fuller on after recognizing the reference?
A) Cinema
B) Cabbie influences
C) Stage suicides
D) Poetry translation
- 41. Who directed the 1969 film Funeral Parade of Roses?
A) Jean-Luc Godard
B) Toshio Matsumoto
C) Dominique Brunner
D) Samuel Fuller
- 42. What type of film is the 1971 movie Don't Deliver Us from Evil?
A) Animated television show
B) American sitcom
C) British drama
D) French horror film
- 43. What do the two adolescent girls do in Don't Deliver Us from Evil during a play?
A) Discuss the translation of Baudelaire
B) Chant poems before escaping in a hansom cab
C) Set themselves on fire in a double suicide on stage
D) Read poems from Les Fleurs Du Mal to the police
- 44. In which month and year did the Friends episode featuring Flowers of Evil air?
A) December 1969
B) January 1997
C) February 2012
D) January 2005
- 45. What is the title of the Friends episode where a coworker's book is discussed?
A) The One with the Flowers of Evil
B) The One with the Poet Killer
C) The One with All the Jealousy
D) The One with Baudelaire
- 46. Which character asks her coworker Julio about his book in Friends?
A) Lucy Barnard
B) Lucille Ball
C) Jill
D) Monica
- 47. Played by Courteney Cox in Friends, what is Monica's relation to Julio?
A) Director
B) Patient
C) Coworker
D) Sister
- 48. In what year did the animated show The Batman air an episode named 'Fleurs du Mal'?
A) 2005
B) 1945
C) 1997
D) 2012
- 49. What is named after Baudelaire in the 2005 episode of The Batman?
A) A hansom cab
B) A movie theater
C) A florist's shop
D) A Scotland Yard precinct
- 50. Who discusses Baudelaire and a phrase from the book with a patient in Saving Hope?
A) Monica
B) A doctor
C) Julio
D) Lord Henry
- 51. Who directed the 2004 movie Immortal?
A) Samuel Fuller
B) Jean-Luc Godard
C) Toshio Matsumoto
D) Dominique Brunner
- 52. Where does Jill read from the book Les Fleurs Du Mal in the movie Immortal?
A) On stage during a play
B) On the Eiffel Tower
C) At a dinner party in Paris
D) Inside a hansom cab
- 53. Who plays the character Jill in the movie Immortal?
A) Monica Geller
B) Lucille Ball
C) Linda Hardy
D) Courteney Cox
- 54. Which specific stanza does Jill recite from the poem 'XLIX. Le Poison' in Immortal?
A) The final stanza
B) The third stanza
C) The first stanza
D) The second stanza
- 55. What is the title of the poem Jill recites from in the movie Immortal?
A) XLIX. Le Poison
B) The Picture of Dorian Gray
C) Fleurs du Mal
D) Pierrot le Fou
- 56. Under which regime were the author and publisher prosecuted?
A) July Monarchy
B) Third Republic
C) First Republic
D) Second Empire
- 57. What was the specific charge brought against the author and publisher?
A) Treason against the state
B) Sedition and heresy
C) Outrage aux bonnes mœurs
D) Plagiarism of classical texts
- 58. What was the exact financial penalty Baudelaire received as a consequence of the prosecution?
A) 300 francs
B) 500 francs
C) 1000 francs
D) 150 francs
- 59. How many poems were initially suppressed from the work?
A) Fourteen
B) Eight
C) Six
D) Four
- 60. In what year was the ban on the suppressed poems finally lifted in France?
A) 1914
B) 1861
C) 1868
D) 1949
- 61. Which suppressed poem translates to 'The Jewels' in English?
A) Lesbos
B) Les Bijoux
C) Les Métamorphoses du Vampire
D) Le Léthé
- 62. Which suppressed poem has the English title 'The Vampire's Metamorphoses'?
A) Le Cygne
B) Femmes damnées
C) Les Métamorphoses du Vampire
D) À celle qui est trop gaie
- 63. In which city were the suppressed poems later published in a small volume?
A) London
B) Geneva
C) Brussels
D) Paris
- 64. What was the title of the small volume containing the suppressed poems published outside of France?
A) Les Fleurs du mal
B) Les Épaves
C) L'albatros
D) Tableaux Parisiens
- 65. What are the alternative French meanings or translations given for the title 'Les Épaves'?
A) Flowers of Evil
B) Parisian Scenes
C) Scraps or Jetsam
D) New Shudders
- 66. Which prominent author announced that Baudelaire had created 'un nouveau frisson'?
A) Théophile Gautier
B) Emile Zola
C) Gustave Flaubert
D) Victor Hugo
- 67. Upon reading which specific poem did Victor Hugo make his famous remark about a new thrill?
A) The Swan
B) Lesbos
C) Le Léthé
D) L'albatros
- 68. When was Les Fleurs du mal first published?
A) 1857
B) 1861
C) 1840
D) 1867
- 69. When did Charles Baudelaire die?
A) August 1840
B) August 1867
C) August 1861
D) August 1857
- 70. In the foreword, who is Satan identified with?
A) Hermes Trismegistus
B) Charles Baudelaire
C) Haussmann
D) Théophile Gautier
- 71. What does the foreword call the worst of miseries?
A) Suffering
B) Eroticism
C) Boredom
D) Death
- 72. In what year was the second edition containing Tableaux Parisiens published?
A) 1857
B) 1840
C) 1867
D) 1861
- 73. During whose renovation of Paris were most Tableaux Parisiens poems written?
A) Baudelaire's
B) Hermes's
C) Haussmann's
D) Gautier's
- 74. What time cycle do the poems in Tableaux Parisiens act as?
A) 24-hour cycle
B) 12-hour cycle
C) Weekly cycle
D) Seasonal cycle
- 75. Who translated the 1909 edition of The Flowers of Evil?
A) Richard Howard
B) George Dillon
C) James McGowan
D) Cyril Scott
- 76. Which publishers released the 1936 edition of Flowers of Evil?
A) Harper & Brothers
B) Verso Books
C) Oxford University Press
D) Barnes & Noble Press
- 77. Who translated the 1954 edition titled The Flowers of Evil?
A) Aaron Poochigian
B) Keith Waldrop
C) William Aggeler
D) Nathan Brown
- 78. In what year was a complete, revised edition edited by Marthiel and Jackson Mathews published?
A) 1958
B) 1955
C) 1963
D) 1961
- 79. Who translated the 1961 edition published by the University of Virginia Press?
A) Nathan Brown
B) Meredith Dutton
C) Francis Duke
D) Keith Miller
- 80. What is the ISBN of the 1993 Oxford University Press edition translated by James McGowan?
A) 0-19-282973-4
B) 0-19-282974-2
C) 0-19-282972-6
D) 0-19-282971-8
- 81. Which publisher released Keith Waldrop's translation of The Flowers of Evil in 2006?
A) Quinx Books
B) Liveright
C) Wesleyan University Press
D) Verso Books
- 82. Which publisher released Aaron Poochigian's translation of The Flowers of Evil in 2021?
A) Oxford University Press
B) Liveright
C) Elkin Mathews
D) Barnes & Noble Press
- 83. Who translated the 2024 edition of The Flowers of Evil published by Quinx Books?
A) Meredith Dutton
B) Keith Miller
C) Nathan Brown
D) Aaron Poochigian
- 84. Which publisher released Nathan Brown's translation of The Flowers of Evil in 2025?
A) Liveright
B) Quinx Books
C) Verso Books
D) Wesleyan University Press
- 85. What is the title of Alban Berg's 1929 concert aria that sets Stefan George's translation of poems from "Le Vin"?
A) Aku no Hana
B) Les Fleurs du Mal
C) La Musique
D) Der Wein
- 86. Who released the 1969 electroacoustic album titled Flowers of Evil with poetry recited over it?
A) Therion
B) Mountain
C) Naked City
D) Ruth White
- 87. Which record label published Ruth White's 1969 album Flowers of Evil?
A) Academy Library Guild
B) Limelight Records
C) Connoisseur Society
D) Fanfare Press
- 88. Which rock band named their 1990 album and its title track after Les Fleurs du mal?
A) Marilyn Manson
B) Mountain
C) Therion
D) Buck-Tick
- 89. Which avant-garde music group named a track on their 1993 album Absinthe after Les Fleurs du Mal?
A) Naked City
B) Therion
C) Buck-Tick
D) Mountain
- 90. Who read excerpts of Cyril Scott's 1909 translation on the 1968 recording Baudelaire's Flowers Of Evil?
A) Ruth White
B) Edna St. Vincent Millay
C) Sofia Karlsson
D) Yvette Mimieux
- 91. Who provided original music for the 1968 recording Baudelaire's Flowers Of Evil alongside Yvette Mimieux?
A) Dan Andersson
B) Neige
C) Alban Berg
D) Ali Akbar Khan
- 92. Which record label originally issued the 1968 recording by Yvette Mimieux and Ali Akbar Khan on LP?
A) Quinx Books
B) Connoisseur Society
C) Liveright
D) Limelight Records
- 93. Who composed the work Tout un monde lointain... for cello and orchestra which is strongly influenced by Les Fleurs du Mal?
A) Ali Akbar Khan
B) Ruth White
C) Alban Berg
D) Henri Dutilleux
- 94. Which rock band released an album titled Flowers of Evil in 1971?
A) Therion
B) Buck-Tick
C) Mountain
D) Naked City
- 95. Which French Black Metal band used poems from Les Fleurs du mal as lyrics for their songs "Le mort joyeux" and "Spleen"?
A) Peste Noire
B) Mortifera
C) Amesoeurs
D) Etron Fou Leloublan
- 96. Which French songwriter and musician used poems from Les Fleurs du mal for several songs with different bands like Alcest, Amesoeurs, and Mortifera?
A) Alban Berg
B) Henri Dutilleux
C) Ali Akbar Khan
D) Neige
- 97. Which band did Neige collaborate with for the song "Élévation"?
A) Alcest
B) Amesoeurs
C) Therion
D) Mortifera
- 98. Which band did Neige collaborate with for the song "Recueillement"?
A) Buck-Tick
B) Mortifera
C) Alcest
D) Amesoeurs
- 99. Which band did Neige collaborate with for the songs "Le revenant" and "Ciel brouillé"?
A) Mountain
B) Mortifera
C) Amesoeurs
D) Alcest
- 100. Which symphonic metal band released an album named Les Fleurs du Mal in 2012?
A) Naked City
B) Buck-Tick
C) Therion
D) Mountain
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