Jean de La Fontaine quiz
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What traps the lion that the rat later frees?
Answer: A net
Why: The rat only has to gnaw through one mesh, and the whole net gives way.
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What does the ant tell the cicada to do now?
Answer: Dance
Why: The narrator adds that refusing to lend is the least of the ant's faults.
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Whose Académie election did Louis XIV await before approving La Fontaine?
Answer: Boileau
Why: The Académie had actually picked La Fontaine over Boileau in 1683, by 16 votes to 7.
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What does the farmer's hidden treasure turn out to be?
Answer: Hard work
Why: Digging over the whole field, the sons find no hidden money, but the field yields a bigger crop that year.
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At whose pace does the hare let the tortoise go?
Answer: A senator's
Why: French still calls an unhurried pace a train de sénateur, a phrase first recorded in this fable that recalls the solemn gait of Roman senators.
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Which Russian-born painter made etchings for the Fables?
Answer: Marc Chagall
Why: Choosing a Russian-born artist for such a French classic was called unpatriotic by many in France.
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