1. Which French dramatist and historiographer is renowned for his mastery of French classical tragedy?

2. Which novel by Émile Zola focuses on the hardships of coal miners?

3. Which French poet saw a remarkable similarity between his own temperament and that of Edgar Allan Poe and translated a number of Poe’s stories into French?

4. What French author was tried for the alleged immorality of his novel Madame Bovary?

5. Where was the writer Albert Camus born?

6. Whose play The Bald Soprano helped inaugurate the Theatre of the Absurd?

7. Which French writer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964 but declined to accept it?

8. Of whom did Gustave Flaubert say, “He’s my disciple and I love him like a son”?