Honoré de Balzac quiz
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Where is Balzac buried?
Answer: Père Lachaise Cemetery
Why: Le Père Goriot ends in the same cemetery, where Rastignac looks out over Paris after Goriot's burial.
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Which business of Balzac's went bankrupt in 1828?
Answer: A print shop
Why: His years as a printer shaped David Séchard, the struggling printer of his novel Lost Illusions.
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What kind of work was Balzac's Cromwell of 1820?
Answer: A verse tragedy
Why: The play runs to 1,906 alexandrines, the twelve-syllable lines of French classical tragedy.
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Whose statue of Balzac did its sponsors reject in 1898?
Answer: Auguste Rodin
Why: The statue went up in bronze on a Paris boulevard only in 1939, 22 years after Rodin's death.
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Which town does Lucien leave for Paris in Lost Illusions?
Answer: Angoulême
Why: Lucien trades his father's plain name, Chardon, for his mother's aristocratic one and calls himself de Rubempré.
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What did Balzac's 1842 foreword compare human types to?
Answer: Animal species
Why: The naturalist Buffon had tried to portray all of zoology in one work, and Balzac set out to do the same for society.
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