annual assessment report - University of Arkansas at Monticello

XIII.
Prosper Merimee wrote a novella set in Spain which was the inspiration for an
opera by Bizet. The novella and the opera have the same title, which is...?
Answer: ___________________ (One Word - 6 letters)
XIV.
In the title of Stendhal‟s novel "le rouge et le noir", what do red and black
symbolize?
Life and death
Hope and despair
The army and the church
Day and night
XV.
Who was the author of "les fleurs du mal", a collection of poems which enjoyed
a "succès de scandale" when it was published in the 1850s?
Théophile Gautier
Charles Baudelaire
Alfred de Vigny
Alfred de Musset
XVI.
Colette's earliest novels, the "Claudine" tetralogy, were written in collaboration
with her husband and originally published under his pen-name. What was the
pen-name?
Willy
Trilby
Wally
Guillaume
XVII.
Which is the first volume in Proust's "Roman-Fleuve" "à la recherche du temps
perdu"?
"Sodome et Gomorrhe"
"À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs"
"Du côté de chez Swann"
"Le côté de Guermantes"
XVIII.
In one of Ionesco‟s plays the central character, Bérenger, has to defend his
humanity in a world in which everyone is turning into a particular species of
animal. Which animal?
Elephant
Rhinoceros
Monkey
Sheep
XIX.
What was the nationality of Georges Simenon, the creator of the Parisian
detective Maigret?
Belgian