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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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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?
Thomas Mann ✓
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ✓
Franz Kafka ✓
Günter Grass ✓
3. Who are the Buddenbrooks?
A declining merchant family ✓
A gang of outlaws ✓
A secret society ✓
A group of young poets ✓
4. What is a Bildungsroman about?
The struggle of the lower classes ✓
The unconscious desires of its protagonists ✓
A panoramic view of society ✓
The intellectual and moral development of a youth ✓
5. What do Droste-Hülsoff, Seghers and Jelinek have in common?
they are women ✓
they are Jewish ✓
they are Austrian ✓
they won the Nobel Prize ✓
6. Who wrote the lyrics to Beethoven's "Ode to Joy"?
Heinrich von Kleist ✓
Friedrich Schiller ✓
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ✓
E.T.A. Hoffmann ✓
7. Who was Marcel Reich-Ranicki?
a Prussian minister responsible for strict censorship ✓
a historical person whose life inspired "The Sorrows of Young Werther" ✓
a literary critic ✓
a powerful publisher ✓
8. What kind of fiction did have a major impact upon Sigmund Freud?
Bourgeois tragedies ✓
Dark romantic fairy tales ✓
Baroque poetry ✓
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 ✓
Sweeping set decorations ✓
Plays that haven an excessive running time ✓
11. What did Goethe, Schiller, Herder and Wieland essentially constitute?
Weimar Classicism ✓
Frankfurt Romanticism ✓
Nuremberg Realism ✓
Heidelberg Naturalism ✓
12. Erich Kästner's "Das doppelte Lottchen" inspired which children's movie?
Mary Poppins ✓
The Wizard of Oz ✓
The Parent Trap ✓
Matilda ✓
13. Which is the name of a novel written by Hermann Hesse?
Simon & Garfunkel ✓
Led Zeppelin ✓
Manfred Mann ✓
Steppenwolf ✓
14. Which historical figure did Friedrich Schiller NOT write a play about?
Mary Stuart ✓
William Tell ✓
Ivan the Terrible ✓
Joan of Arc ✓
EcceHomo
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Level 79
Nov 9, 2022
Nice quiz but isn't it rather teutonocentric?

:D

I got 10/14, but I should have got 13/14. I didn't know the reich-Ranicki one.

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