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  "A Season in Hell" by Arthur Rimbaud    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
One of Literature's most intriguing characters, and its greatest disasters. His written work ended at the age of nineteen, but his life continued on a nomadic trail of adventure. Arthur Rimbaud both captivated, and astonished. Enjoy.
Average, 10 Qns, Dantecmdy, Aug 05 07
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Dantecmdy
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  Mondo Arthur Rimbaud Part 1    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Questions covering my favorite poet, the man with wind at the soles of his feet, the adolescent genius, the alchemist of the word, the infernal bridegroom... your friend and mine... Arthur Rimbaud.
Difficult, 10 Qns, dorian_june, Sep 23 07
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dorian_june
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Arthur Rimbaud Trivia Questions
1. "Once if I remember well, my life was a feast, where all hearts opened, and all wines...". What's the missing word?

From Quiz "A Season in Hell" by Arthur Rimbaud

Answer: flowed

Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud was born on October 20, 1854, in Charleville, France.

2. What is the name of the female character in Rimbaud's short story "A Heart Under a Cassock"?

From Quiz Mondo Arthur Rimbaud Part 1

Answer: Thimothina Labinette

Throughout the story Rimbaud changes his character's name slightly.

3. "I have a horror of all trades. Master and workers, base peasants all. The hand that guides the pen is worth the hand that guides the...". What's the missing word?

From Quiz "A Season in Hell" by Arthur Rimbaud

Answer: plough

Rimbaud's father, Frederic, was a career soldier. He left his family when Arthur was six years old, never to return.

4. What are the first eight words of Rimbaud's prose poem that begins his collection of prose poems entitled "Illuminations"?

From Quiz Mondo Arthur Rimbaud Part 1

Answer: After the idea of the flood had subsided

The "Illuminations" and 99% of Rimbaud's work were published after he died. Only one of his mature poems was published while he was alive, and a few pieces of his schoolwork.

5. "Had I not once a lovely youth, heroic, fabulous, to be written on sheets of gold, good luck and to...". What's the missing word?

From Quiz "A Season in Hell" by Arthur Rimbaud

Answer: spare

Rimbaud was an outstanding student, but his behavior was considerd provocative. At the College de Charleville, he took first prize in the Concours Academique.

6. Besides himself, whom did Rimbaud write "A Season in Hell" about?

From Quiz Mondo Arthur Rimbaud Part 1

Answer: Paul Verlaine

His relationship with Paul Verlaine is one of the most famous and infamous couplings in all of literature. In fact, an entire motion picture was even made based on the three years they were together, called "Total Eclipse".

7. "At last, O happiness, O reason, I brushed from the sky the azure that is darkness, and I lived--gold spark of pure...". What's the missing word?

From Quiz "A Season in Hell" by Arthur Rimbaud

Answer: light

In 1871, Rimbaud met poet Paul Verlaine. (1844-1896) He would later leave his young wife, and unborn child to lead a bohemian lifestyle with Rimbaud in London in 1872.

8. What was the timespan that Rimbaud took to write "A Season in Hell"?

From Quiz Mondo Arthur Rimbaud Part 1

Answer: April-August 1873

Five months is brief enough for such a perfected, minute work, but almost half of the five months he was embroiled in hardships involving Paul Verlaine, including being shot by him.

9. "We're not going. Back over the old roads again, laden with my vices whose roots of suffering have flourished at my side since reason...". What's the missing word?

From Quiz "A Season in Hell" by Arthur Rimbaud

Answer: dawned

In a relationship fueled by drug and drink, Rimbaud ended the torrid affair, in Brussels, only to be shot in the wrist by a drunken Verlaine.

10. In the summer of 1873 Rimbaud was shot by another poet, where was he shot?

From Quiz Mondo Arthur Rimbaud Part 1

Answer: his left hand

Verlaine shot Rimbaud because Rimbaud wanted to go back to Paris and Verlaine didn't want that, and Verlaine being already a little mentally disturbed at this point, he was pushed over the edge by this news and lost it.

11. "I called to the executioners that I might gnaw their rifle-butts while dying. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand. Misfortune was my...". What's the missing word?

From Quiz "A Season in Hell" by Arthur Rimbaud

Answer: god

Rimbaud returned home and finished "Une Saison en Enfer". After its printing he sent copies to literary friends in Paris. With the Brussels scandal still looming, he found himself snubbed by all.

12. Name the poem that Rimbaud sent to Paris before he arrived there at 16 for the third time. This poem he sent, along with seven others, and was considered the crowning achievement up to that point in his career.

From Quiz Mondo Arthur Rimbaud Part 1

Answer: The Drunken Boat

What's astonishing is that Rimbaud wrote all of his verse and prose before he was twenty years old, "The Drunken Boat" (a 100 line poem) being written when Rimbaud was only 16.

13. "One evening I sat beauty on my knees. And I found her bitter. And I cursed...". What's the missing word?

From Quiz "A Season in Hell" by Arthur Rimbaud

Answer: her

Around 1873, disillusioned with literature, Rimbaud burned all his manuscripts, and remaining copies of "Une Saison en Enfer". He ended his literary career at the age of nineteen. He began wondering Europe, learning many languages, and working countless odd jobs.

14. Rimbaud had a very close friend named George Izambard. The poem "The Lice Seekers" was written about which of Izambard's relatives?

From Quiz Mondo Arthur Rimbaud Part 1

Answer: his three aunts

Rimbaud hated cleanliness, as did other geniuses of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and he hated to bathe and wash his hair, and so therefore had lice frequently. The poem was about Izambard's aunts picking the lice out of Rimbaud's hair.

15. "If I've a taste, it's not alone. For the earth and stones, rock, coal, iron, air. That's my daily...". What's the missing word?

From Quiz "A Season in Hell" by Arthur Rimbaud

Answer: fare

Around 1875, Rimbaud crossed the Alps on foot to reach Italy, where he hoped to work in a soap factory. In 1876 Rimbaud went to Holland and enlisted into the Dutch army, to reach the Orient. He sailed to Java, and deserted three weeks later.

16. "My health was threatened. Terror came. I would fall into a slumber of days, and getting up would go on with the same sad...". What's the missing word?

From Quiz "A Season in Hell" by Arthur Rimbaud

Answer: dreams

On April 2, 1891 Rimbaud left Harar. After suffering for many months from a swelling in his right leg, the inflammation got worse, and in a Marseilles hospital, his leg was amputated.

17. What was Rimbaud's nickname for his mother whom he disliked and some say hated?

From Quiz Mondo Arthur Rimbaud Part 1

Answer: the mouth of darkness

Rimbaud, at times, strongly disliked his mother, and three times before he was 16 had run away.

18. "Boredom is no longer my love. Rages, debauchery, madness,--I have known all their soarings, and their...". What's the missing word?

From Quiz "A Season in Hell" by Arthur Rimbaud

Answer: disasters

With his sister Isabelle, at his side. Rimbaud's doctors diagnosed the disease as carcinoma, but it may have been syphilis in its tertiary stage. Arthur Rimbaud died on November 10, 1891. Ten years later in Charleville, a monument in his memory was erected in the Square de la Gare.

19. Legend has it that a famous french author once called Rimbaud "an infant Shakespeare". Who was this author?

From Quiz Mondo Arthur Rimbaud Part 1

Answer: Victor Hugo

Some say this is apocryphal, but who knows. It's nice to believe it is true.

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