| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| Who is commonly considered the German national poet? | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 91%
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| What are Franz Kafka's works known for? | Overpowering bureaucracy | 86%
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| What is a Bildungsroman about? | The intellectual and moral development of a youth | 86%
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| Which is the name of a novel written by Hermann Hesse? | Steppenwolf | 82%
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| Who are the Buddenbrooks? | A declining merchant family | 77%
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| What did Goethe, Schiller, Herder and Wieland essentially constitute? | Weimar Classicism | 73%
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| Erich Kästner's "Das doppelte Lottchen" inspired which children's movie? | The Parent Trap | 68%
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| Who wrote the lyrics to Beethoven's "Ode to Joy"? | Friedrich Schiller | 64%
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| What kind of fiction did have a major impact upon Sigmund Freud? | Dark romantic fairy tales | 59%
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| What do Droste-Hülsoff, Seghers and Jelinek have in common? | they are women | 59%
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| And what is a typical element of Epic theater? | Distanced acting | 50%
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| Who is one of the key authors of Epic theater? | Bertolt Brecht | 45%
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| Which historical figure did Friedrich Schiller NOT write a play about? | Ivan the Terrible | 45%
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| Who was Marcel Reich-Ranicki? | a literary critic | 41%
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