Quiz – French Fiction
Quiz – French Fiction
To mark France’s big day on the 14th July a quiz about French literature or about novels set in France.
To mark France’s big day on the 14th July a quiz about French literature or about novels set in France.
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” Which classic French novel, written in 1862, is this quote from?
Madame Bovary’s first name?
Finish the title of this popular 2006 novel set in France: The --- of the Hedgehog.
Which famous French novel is a semi-autobiographical account of the author’s love affair with a courtesan?
Which satire was first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment?
Which playwright wrote some of the most central pieces in Western theatre including; The Misanthrope, The School for Wives, Tartuffe and The Miser?
Who wrote Germinal, Thérèse Raquin and La Bête Humaine?
Which 2013 novel is about Lucien Bernard who creates hiding places for Jews being hunted by the Nazis?
What is the name of the unhappy Queen in The Three Musketeers?
Which of Jules Verne’s classic adventure novels begins and ends in The Reform Club, London?
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier attempts to unravel the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces – what form of art work is it about?
Which 1944 novella by Colette focuses on a young Parisian girl being groomed as a courtesan?
A Tale of Two Cities is about Paris and what other European city?
Which popular 1999 novel is set in the village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes and begins during Lent?
‘All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.’ Which classic novella does this quote come from?
Which one of these classic Fairytales did Charles Perrault not write; Little Red Riding Hood or Rumpelstiltskin?
A Moveable Feast is a memoir by Ernest Hemingway about his early years as a writer in which French city?
Irène Némirovsky, the author of Suite Francais, was a French writer with origins from what other European country?
Which Dickens novel begins in Marseilles?
What is the final book of Sebastian Faulk’s France Trilogy?