Statistics for Weimar Republic Multiple Choice

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Which 1919 treaty blamed World War I on Germany and demanded high reparations?	Treaty of Versailles	94%
Which event was used by the Nazis to establish a dictatorship?	a Reichstag arson attack	93%
Due to delayed war reparations, France occupied the Ruhr Valley in 1923. Why was this region significant?	It was the center of coal and steel production	92%
Paul von Hindenburg served as president from 1925 on. What was he known for?	Being a WWI general	88%
Which movie, directed by Fritz Lang, was about a futuristic city?	Metropolis	83%
What was the Weimar Republic named after?	A town	78%
What is the decade between 1920-1929 known as in Germany?	Golden Twenties	76%
Who had plotted Germany's WWI defeat, according to the "Stab in the Back" conspiracy theory?	Jews and Leftists	71%
Which actress gained fame with "The Blue Angel" in the early 1930s, before leaving for Hollywood?	Marlene Dietrich	67%
Which of these movements is NOT associated with the Weimar Republic?	Enlightenment	56%
What percentage did the Nazi party gain at the last free parliamentary elections in November 1932?	33%	52%
Which of these things is NOT linked particularly to 1920's Berlin?	Piety	48%
Which German author was at his prime during the 1920s, winning the Nobel Prize in 1929?	Thomas Mann	41%
Which ancient city was Berlin likened to?	Babylon	40%