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