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