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German Literature Multiple Choice
How much do you know about German-language literature?
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Last updated: September 26, 2019
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| First submitted | September 26, 2019 |
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1.
What are Franz Kafka's works known for?
Overpowering bureaucracy
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Historical accuracy
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Romantic heroes
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Emancipatory women
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2.
Who is commonly considered the German national poet?
Thomas Mann
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Günter Grass
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Franz Kafka
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3.
Who are the Buddenbrooks?
A declining merchant family
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A gang of outlaws
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A secret society
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A group of young poets
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4.
What is a Bildungsroman about?
A panoramic view of society
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The intellectual and moral development of a youth
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The struggle of the lower classes
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The unconscious desires of its protagonists
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5.
What do Droste-Hülsoff, Seghers and Jelinek have in common?
they are Jewish
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they are women
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they are Austrian
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they won the Nobel Prize
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6.
Who wrote the lyrics to Beethoven's "Ode to Joy"?
Heinrich von Kleist
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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E.T.A. Hoffmann
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Friedrich Schiller
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7.
Who was Marcel Reich-Ranicki?
a literary critic
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a historical person whose life inspired "The Sorrows of Young Werther"
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a powerful publisher
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a Prussian minister responsible for strict censorship
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8.
What kind of fiction did have a major impact upon Sigmund Freud?
Bourgeois tragedies
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Baroque poetry
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Dark romantic fairy tales
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Picaresque adventures
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9.
Who is one of the key authors of Epic theater?
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Bertolt Brecht
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Gerhart Hauptmann
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Peter Handke
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10.
And what is a typical element of Epic theater?
Plays that haven an excessive running time
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Sweeping set decorations
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Distanced acting
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11.
What did Goethe, Schiller, Herder and Wieland essentially constitute?
Nuremberg Realism
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Weimar Classicism
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Heidelberg Naturalism
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Frankfurt Romanticism
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12.
Erich Kästner's "Das doppelte Lottchen" inspired which children's movie?
The Parent Trap
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Matilda
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The Wizard of Oz
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Mary Poppins
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13.
Which is the name of a novel written by Hermann Hesse?
Led Zeppelin
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Simon & Garfunkel
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Steppenwolf
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Manfred Mann
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14.
Which historical figure did Friedrich Schiller NOT write a play about?
William Tell
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Mary Stuart
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Ivan the Terrible
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Joan of Arc
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I got 10/14, but I should have got 13/14. I didn't know the reich-Ranicki one.