- 1. Which artistic collective produced a series of cantastoria using Les Fleurs du Mal as text?
A) Theater Oobleck
B) Don Juan
C) Theater of Cruelty
D) Oulipo
- 2. Where is Theater Oobleck based?
A) Paris
B) Chicago
C) Montreal
D) London
- 3. What is the title of the Canadian-French musical released in 2003 that mentions Les Fleurs du Mal?
A) Don Juan
B) Les Misérables
C) Starmania
D) Notre-Dame de Paris
- 4. In the musical Don Juan, who is the title character arguing with during the song Les Fleurs du Mal?
A) Don Quixote
B) Don Carlo
C) Don Fernando
D) Don Alonsé
- 5. What are Don Juan and Don Carlo arguing about in the musical Don Juan?
A) A stolen copy of Les Fleurs du Mal
B) The self-indulgent and vain lifestyle of Don Juan
C) Political corruption in Paris
D) The philosophy of T.S. Eliot
- 6. Which poet references the poem "Au Lecteur" in The Waste Land?
A) T.S. Eliot
B) Charles Baudelaire
C) Walt Whitman
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 Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
C) The Hollow Men
D) Ash Wednesday
- 8. Which specific line from "Au Lecteur" is referenced in The Waste Land?
A) Sois sage, ô ma douleur
B) Hypocrite reader, my master, my guide
C) You! hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable,—mon frère!
D) O mon beau ténébreux
- 9. Who included the poem "The Eyes of the Poor" in a book chapter?
A) Roger Zelazny
B) Bernadette Lefort
C) David Harvey
D) T.S. Eliot
- 10. What is the profession of David Harvey?
A) Literary critic and poet
B) Musician and playwright
C) Computer scientist and novelist
D) Geographer and political economist
- 11. What is the name of the book chapter by David Harvey that includes "The Eyes of the Poor"?
A) The Paris of Baudelaire
B) Roadmarks
C) The Political Economy of Public Space
D) Flowers of Evil
- 12. In which book by Roger Zelazny does a protagonist travel with a sentient computer disguised as Les Fleurs du mal?
A) Roadmarks
B) Don Juan
C) Aku no Hana
D) The Waste Land
- 13. Who is the protagonist of Roger Zelazny's book Roadmarks?
A) Takao Kasuga
B) Don Carlo
C) Red Dorakeen
D) David Harvey
- 14. What is the name of the sentient computer disguised as Les Fleurs du mal in Roadmarks?
A) Aku no Hana
B) Leaves of Grass
C) Au Lecteur
D) Flowers of Evil
- 15. Which Walt Whitman book inspired the disguise of another computer that befriends Flowers of Evil in Roadmarks?
A) Roadmarks
B) Leaves of Grass
C) Les Fleurs du mal
D) The Waste Land
- 16. What is the Japanese title of the 2009 manga named after Les Fleurs du mal?
A) The Waste Land
B) Élévation
C) Aku no Hana
D) Spleen et Idéal
- 17. What is the name of the main character in the manga Aku no Hana?
A) Red Dorakeen
B) Don Carlo
C) Takao Kasuga
D) David Harvey
- 18. What does the book Les Fleurs du mal represent to Takao Kasuga in Aku no Hana?
A) Public space economics
B) Political revolution
C) Adult depravity
D) Mathematical precision
- 19. In what year was the 13-episode anime adaptation of Aku no Hana aired?
A) 2013
B) 1922
C) 2003
D) 2009
- 20. How many episodes were in the 2013 anime adaptation of Aku no Hana?
A) 12
B) 10
C) 13
D) 24
- 21. Which poem's first two stanzas were included on the Voyager Golden Record?
A) The Eyes of the Poor
B) Au Lecteur
C) Élévation
D) Le Vin
- 22. How many stanzas of the poem “Élévation” were included on the Voyager Golden Record?
A) Two
B) Four
C) Three
D) One
- 23. Who read aloud the excerpt on the Voyager Golden Record?
A) Roger Zelazny
B) T.S. Eliot
C) Bernadette Lefort
D) David Harvey
- 24. What position did Bernadette Lefort hold when she recorded the poem for the Voyager Golden Record?
A) President of the French Academy
B) Ambassador to the United States
C) France's then UN representative
D) French Minister of Culture
- 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) Le Vin
B) Élévation
C) The Eyes of the Poor
D) Au Lecteur
- 26. Under which section of the 1857 edition is the poem "Le Vin" categorized?
A) Spleen et Idéal
B) Révolte
C) Les Épaves
D) Tableaux parisiens
- 27. Which of the following is listed as a later addition section alongside Les Épaves?
A) Edition of 1868
B) Tableaux parisiens
C) Spleen et Idéal
D) Edition of 1857
- 28. What is Lord Henry doing at the beginning of The Picture of Dorian Gray?
A) Reciting poetry to the cab driver
B) Reading the book during a hansom cab ride
C) Searching for a missing friend
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) Dominique Brunner's home
B) Lucy Barnard's home
C) Samuel Fuller's home
D) Basil Hallward's home
- 30. What does Lord Henry do with the book when he tells the cabbie to wait?
A) Throws it out the window
B) Tosses it up to him
C) Leaves it in the back seat
D) Hides it under the seat
- 31. Which 1947 film stars Lucille Ball searching for her missing friend?
A) Lured
B) The Picture of Dorian Gray
C) Pierrot le Fou
D) Funeral Parade of Roses
- 32. What is the name of Lucille Ball's missing friend in the 1947 film Lured?
A) Basil Hallward
B) Jill
C) Monica Geller
D) Lucy Barnard
- 33. What nickname is given to the killer in the 1947 film Lured?
A) The Baudelaire Killer
B) The Poet Killer
C) The Paris Slasher
D) The Flowers of Evil Killer
- 34. What does the killer in Lured send to taunt the police after victims are taken?
A) Poems
B) Copies of Les Fleurs Du Mal
C) Photographs
D) Personal effects
- 35. Which director's 1965 film features a character attending a dinner party in Paris?
A) Dominique Brunner
B) Toshio Matsumoto
C) Courteney Cox
D) Jean-Luc Godard
- 36. What is the title of Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film mentioned in the text?
A) Pierrot le Fou
B) Fleurs du Mal
C) Don't Deliver Us from Evil
D) Funeral Parade of Roses
- 37. Which central character in Pierrot le Fou attends a dinner party?
A) Julio
B) Lord Henry
C) Ferdinand
D) Jill
- 38. Which American filmmaker plays himself in Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le Fou?
A) Toshio Matsumoto
B) Basil Hallward
C) Samuel Fuller
D) Dominique Brunner
- 39. Whose work does Ferdinand recognize a reference to in Pierrot le Fou?
A) Lucille Ball
B) Courteney Cox
C) Baudelaire
D) Lord Henry
- 40. What subject does Ferdinand engage Samuel Fuller on after recognizing the reference?
A) Poetry translation
B) Cabbie influences
C) Stage suicides
D) Cinema
- 41. Who directed the 1969 film Funeral Parade of Roses?
A) Jean-Luc Godard
B) Samuel Fuller
C) Dominique Brunner
D) Toshio Matsumoto
- 42. What type of film is the 1971 movie Don't Deliver Us from Evil?
A) Animated television show
B) British drama
C) American sitcom
D) French horror film
- 43. What do the two adolescent girls do in Don't Deliver Us from Evil during a play?
A) Read poems from Les Fleurs Du Mal to the police
B) Discuss the translation of Baudelaire
C) Chant poems before escaping in a hansom cab
D) Set themselves on fire in a double suicide on stage
- 44. In which month and year did the Friends episode featuring Flowers of Evil air?
A) February 2012
B) December 1969
C) January 2005
D) January 1997
- 45. What is the title of the Friends episode where a coworker's book is discussed?
A) The One with Baudelaire
B) The One with the Poet Killer
C) The One with the Flowers of Evil
D) The One with All the Jealousy
- 46. Which character asks her coworker Julio about his book in Friends?
A) Monica
B) Jill
C) Lucy Barnard
D) Lucille Ball
- 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) 2012
B) 1945
C) 2005
D) 1997
- 49. What is named after Baudelaire in the 2005 episode of The Batman?
A) A movie theater
B) A hansom cab
C) A Scotland Yard precinct
D) A florist's shop
- 50. Who discusses Baudelaire and a phrase from the book with a patient in Saving Hope?
A) Julio
B) Lord Henry
C) A doctor
D) Monica
- 51. Who directed the 2004 movie Immortal?
A) Jean-Luc Godard
B) Toshio Matsumoto
C) Dominique Brunner
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) At a dinner party in Paris
C) On stage during a play
D) On the Eiffel Tower
- 53. Who plays the character Jill in the movie Immortal?
A) Courteney Cox
B) Monica Geller
C) Lucille Ball
D) Linda Hardy
- 54. Which specific stanza does Jill recite from the poem 'XLIX. Le Poison' in Immortal?
A) The second stanza
B) The third stanza
C) The first stanza
D) The final stanza
- 55. What is the title of the poem Jill recites from in the movie Immortal?
A) The Picture of Dorian Gray
B) Fleurs du Mal
C) XLIX. Le Poison
D) Pierrot le Fou
- 56. Under which regime were the author and publisher prosecuted?
A) July Monarchy
B) Second Empire
C) Third Republic
D) First Republic
- 57. What was the specific charge brought against the author and publisher?
A) Outrage aux bonnes mœurs
B) Sedition and heresy
C) Treason against the state
D) Plagiarism of classical texts
- 58. What was the exact financial penalty Baudelaire received as a consequence of the prosecution?
A) 500 francs
B) 150 francs
C) 1000 francs
D) 300 francs
- 59. How many poems were initially suppressed from the work?
A) Fourteen
B) Eight
C) Four
D) Six
- 60. In what year was the ban on the suppressed poems finally lifted in France?
A) 1949
B) 1914
C) 1868
D) 1861
- 61. Which suppressed poem translates to 'The Jewels' in English?
A) Les Bijoux
B) Le Léthé
C) Lesbos
D) Les Métamorphoses du Vampire
- 62. Which suppressed poem has the English title 'The Vampire's Metamorphoses'?
A) Les Métamorphoses du Vampire
B) Femmes damnées
C) À celle qui est trop gaie
D) Le Cygne
- 63. In which city were the suppressed poems later published in a small volume?
A) Brussels
B) Paris
C) London
D) Geneva
- 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) Tableaux Parisiens
D) L'albatros
- 65. What are the alternative French meanings or translations given for the title 'Les Épaves'?
A) Scraps or Jetsam
B) Parisian Scenes
C) New Shudders
D) Flowers of Evil
- 66. Which prominent author announced that Baudelaire had created 'un nouveau frisson'?
A) Théophile Gautier
B) Emile Zola
C) Gustave Flaubert
D) Victor Hugo
- 67. Upon reading which specific poem did Victor Hugo make his famous remark about a new thrill?
A) L'albatros
B) The Swan
C) Le Léthé
D) Lesbos
- 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 1861
B) August 1840
C) August 1867
D) August 1857
- 70. In the foreword, who is Satan identified with?
A) Théophile Gautier
B) Charles Baudelaire
C) Haussmann
D) Hermes Trismegistus
- 71. What does the foreword call the worst of miseries?
A) Boredom
B) Eroticism
C) Death
D) Suffering
- 72. In what year was the second edition containing Tableaux Parisiens published?
A) 1840
B) 1857
C) 1861
D) 1867
- 73. During whose renovation of Paris were most Tableaux Parisiens poems written?
A) Gautier's
B) Baudelaire's
C) Haussmann's
D) Hermes's
- 74. What time cycle do the poems in Tableaux Parisiens act as?
A) 24-hour cycle
B) Weekly cycle
C) 12-hour cycle
D) Seasonal cycle
- 75. Who translated the 1909 edition of The Flowers of Evil?
A) Cyril Scott
B) George Dillon
C) James McGowan
D) Richard Howard
- 76. Which publishers released the 1936 edition of Flowers of Evil?
A) Barnes & Noble Press
B) Oxford University 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) 1963
B) 1958
C) 1961
D) 1955
- 79. Who translated the 1961 edition published by the University of Virginia Press?
A) Francis Duke
B) Keith Miller
C) Nathan Brown
D) Meredith Dutton
- 80. What is the ISBN of the 1993 Oxford University Press edition translated by James McGowan?
A) 0-19-282971-8
B) 0-19-282972-6
C) 0-19-282973-4
D) 0-19-282974-2
- 81. Which publisher released Keith Waldrop's translation of The Flowers of Evil in 2006?
A) Wesleyan University Press
B) Quinx Books
C) Liveright
D) Verso Books
- 82. Which publisher released Aaron Poochigian's translation of The Flowers of Evil in 2021?
A) Elkin Mathews
B) Barnes & Noble Press
C) Liveright
D) Oxford University Press
- 83. Who translated the 2024 edition of The Flowers of Evil published by Quinx Books?
A) Nathan Brown
B) Meredith Dutton
C) Aaron Poochigian
D) Keith Miller
- 84. Which publisher released Nathan Brown's translation of The Flowers of Evil in 2025?
A) Wesleyan University Press
B) Verso Books
C) Liveright
D) Quinx 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) La Musique
C) Der Wein
D) Aku no Hana
- 86. Who released the 1969 electroacoustic album titled Flowers of Evil with poetry recited over it?
A) Ruth White
B) Mountain
C) Naked City
D) Therion
- 87. Which record label published Ruth White's 1969 album Flowers of Evil?
A) Fanfare Press
B) Connoisseur Society
C) Academy Library Guild
D) Limelight Records
- 88. Which rock band named their 1990 album and its title track after Les Fleurs du mal?
A) Buck-Tick
B) Therion
C) Marilyn Manson
D) Mountain
- 89. Which avant-garde music group named a track on their 1993 album Absinthe after Les Fleurs du Mal?
A) Therion
B) Buck-Tick
C) Naked City
D) Mountain
- 90. Who read excerpts of Cyril Scott's 1909 translation on the 1968 recording Baudelaire's Flowers Of Evil?
A) Ruth White
B) Edna St. Vincent Millay
C) Yvette Mimieux
D) Sofia Karlsson
- 91. Who provided original music for the 1968 recording Baudelaire's Flowers Of Evil alongside Yvette Mimieux?
A) Neige
B) Alban Berg
C) Dan Andersson
D) Ali Akbar Khan
- 92. Which record label originally issued the 1968 recording by Yvette Mimieux and Ali Akbar Khan on LP?
A) Connoisseur Society
B) Limelight Records
C) Quinx Books
D) Liveright
- 93. Who composed the work Tout un monde lointain... for cello and orchestra which is strongly influenced by Les Fleurs du Mal?
A) Ali Akbar Khan
B) Ruth White
C) Alban Berg
D) Henri Dutilleux
- 94. Which rock band released an album titled Flowers of Evil in 1971?
A) Mountain
B) Naked City
C) Therion
D) Buck-Tick
- 95. Which French Black Metal band used poems from Les Fleurs du mal as lyrics for their songs "Le mort joyeux" and "Spleen"?
A) Etron Fou Leloublan
B) Amesoeurs
C) Peste Noire
D) Mortifera
- 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) Alban Berg
C) Ali Akbar Khan
D) Neige
- 97. Which band did Neige collaborate with for the song "Élévation"?
A) Therion
B) Amesoeurs
C) Mortifera
D) Alcest
- 98. Which band did Neige collaborate with for the song "Recueillement"?
A) Buck-Tick
B) Alcest
C) Mortifera
D) Amesoeurs
- 99. Which band did Neige collaborate with for the songs "Le revenant" and "Ciel brouillé"?
A) Mortifera
B) Amesoeurs
C) Alcest
D) Mountain
- 100. Which symphonic metal band released an album named Les Fleurs du Mal in 2012?
A) Therion
B) Buck-Tick
C) Mountain
D) Naked City
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