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