Statistics for German Literature Multiple Choice

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Who is commonly considered the German national poet?	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	92%
What are Franz Kafka's works known for?	Overpowering bureaucracy	84%
What is a Bildungsroman about?	The intellectual and moral development of a youth	83%
Which is the name of a novel written by Hermann Hesse?	Steppenwolf	81%
Who are the Buddenbrooks?	A declining merchant family	68%
Who is one of the key authors of Epic theater?	Bertolt Brecht	65%
What did Goethe, Schiller, Herder and Wieland essentially constitute?	Weimar Classicism	61%
Who wrote the lyrics to Beethoven's "Ode to Joy"?	Friedrich Schiller	58%
Which historical figure did Friedrich Schiller NOT write a play about?	Ivan the Terrible	56%
What kind of fiction did have a major impact upon Sigmund Freud?	Dark romantic fairy tales	50%
And what is a typical element of Epic theater?	Distanced acting	50%
Erich Kästner's "Das doppelte Lottchen" inspired which children's movie?	The Parent Trap	46%
What do Droste-Hülsoff, Seghers and Jelinek have in common?	they are women	43%
Who was Marcel Reich-Ranicki?	a literary critic	39%