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Pop Quiz: All About French Literature

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1.   Which famous novel by Victor Hugo was later turned into a Broadway musical of the same name?
    Cats
    Les Miserables
    A Tale of Two Cities

2.   The Stranger by Camus features a protagonist who seems to have no what?
    Tokens for the Metro
    Family
    Emotions

3.   Flaubert wrote this famous portrait of a middle-class housewife:
    Madame Bovary
    The Honeymooners
    Giselle

4.   Which writer was famous for his short stories, including, “The Necklace”?
    Henri Stendahl
    Honore de Balzac
    Guy de Mauppasant

5.   Antoine de Saint Exupery wrote a book about a little what?
    Prince
    Frog
    French bistro

6.   During the 1920s, this woman writer became famous for her stories about people on the periphery of society:
    Colette
    George Elliot
    Gertrude Stein

7.   This French literary movement was characterized by its exploration of the chaos and illogic of the subconscious mind:
    Naturalism
    Romanticism
    Surrealism

8.   George Sand was a:
    Celebrated Frenchman
    Celebrated Frenchwoman
    Celebrated Englishman

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