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