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Jean de La Fontaine

Where is Jean de La Fontaine's grave?

2Père-Lachaise Cemetery

1Pantheon of Paris

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Jean de La Fontaine's grave is located in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, where he has been buried since 1817 alongside his friend, the playwright Molière.

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Jean de La Fontaine's grave is located in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, where he has been buried since 1817 alongside his friend, the playwright Molière.

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Who is the narrator of Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho?

1Patrick Bateman

2Timothy Price

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The narrator of Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho is Patrick Bateman, a young New York investment banker and serial killer.

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The narrator of Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho is Patrick Bateman, a young New York investment banker and serial killer.

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Who is the author of the epistolary novel Dracula published in 1897?

1Bram Stoker

2Mary Shelley

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The author of the epistolary novel Dracula, published in 1897, is Bram Stoker. This classic of Gothic literature popularized the vampire myth.

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The author of the epistolary novel Dracula, published in 1897, is Bram Stoker. This classic of Gothic literature popularized the vampire myth.

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What is the first volume of the Lord of the Rings trilogy?

1The Fellowship of the Ring

2The Two Towers

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The first volume of the Lord of the Rings trilogy is The Fellowship of the Ring, published in 1954 by J.R.R. Tolkien.

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The first volume of the Lord of the Rings trilogy is The Fellowship of the Ring, published in 1954 by J.R.R. Tolkien.

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Which novel by Boris Vian was published in 1947?

1Froth on the Daydream

2Heartsnatcher

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In 1947, Boris Vian published Froth on the Daydream, a novel combining love, poetry and surrealism, where the absurd rubs shoulders with tenderness in a dreamlike universe.

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In 1947, Boris Vian published Froth on the Daydream, a novel combining love, poetry and surrealism, where the absurd rubs shoulders with tenderness in a dreamlike universe.

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To which cycle does the novel The Plague by Albert Camus, published in 1947, belong?

2The cycle of revolt

1The cycle of absurd

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The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus published in 1947 and receiving the Critics' Prize the same year. It belongs to the cycle of revolt bringing together three works by Camus, The Plague, The Revolted Man and The Righteous, which in part enabled its author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

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The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus published in 1947 and receiving the Critics' Prize the same year. It belongs to the cycle of revolt bringing together three works by Camus, The Plague, The Revolted Man and The Righteous, which in part enabled its author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

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In The Three Musketeers, who is the author of Constance Bonacieux's kidnapping?

1Richelieu

2Milady de Winter

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In The Three Musketeers, Constance Bonacieux is kidnapped on the orders of Cardinal de Richelieu, but it's Milady de Winter who orchestrates her poisoning.

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In The Three Musketeers, Constance Bonacieux is kidnapped on the orders of Cardinal de Richelieu, but it's Milady de Winter who orchestrates her poisoning.

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Which science fiction novel inspired Ridley Scott for his 1982 film Blade Runner?

2Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

1Brave New World

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Blade Runner is an American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, released in 1982. Its screenplay is loosely based on the novel Do androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by author Philip K. Dick, to whom the film is dedicated.

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Blade Runner is an American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, released in 1982. Its screenplay is loosely based on the novel Do androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by author Philip K. Dick, to whom the film is dedicated.

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What's Madame Bovary's first name?

1Emma

2Virginie

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Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857) recounts the quest of Emma Bovary, married to a provincial doctor, to escape boredom through adventure and excessive luxury.

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Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857) recounts the quest of Emma Bovary, married to a provincial doctor, to escape boredom through adventure and excessive luxury.

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rimbaud

How did Rimbaud die?

1Cancer

2Duel

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The poet Arthur Rimbaud died in Marseille on November 10, 1891, at the age of 37, as a result of bone cancer that led to the amputation of his leg.

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The poet Arthur Rimbaud died in Marseille on November 10, 1891, at the age of 37, as a result of bone cancer that led to the amputation of his leg.

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