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