German Literature Quiz 7

Questions

1. The Holy Sinner is a work by whom?

   1. Thomas Mann
   2. Bertlot Brecht
   3. Gunter Grass
   4. Hermann Hesse

2. Who won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Literature?

   1. Gerhart Hauptmann
   2. ETA Hoffmann
   3. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
   4. Freidrich Schiller

3. Which of these works was published in 1959?

   1. The Tin Drum
   2. Faust
   3. The Reader
   4. The Trial

4. Which of these was born in 1877?

   1. Hermann Hesse
   2. Gunter Grass
   3. Johann Von Goethe
   4. Bertolt Brecht

5. Which of these is NOT a novel be Henrich Boll?

   1. The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
   2. The Clown
   3. The Lost Days
   4. And Never Said a Word

6. Which of these authors passed away in 1956?

   1. Hermann Hesse
   2. Johann Von Goethe
   3. Gunter Grass
   4. Bertlot Brecht

7. What does the A stand for in ETA Hoffman?

   1. Alien
   2. Nothing
   3. Alfred
   4. Ahmed

8. Thomas Mann was alive in which of these years?

   1. 1840
   2. 1789
   3. 1950
   4. 1967

9. The Sorrows of Young Weather is a work by which prominent author?

   1. Freidrich Schiller
   2. Theodor Mommsen
   3. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
   4. ETA Hoffmann

10. Buddenbrooks was the first novel by whom?

    1. Gunter Grass
    2. Hermann Hesse
    3. Bertlot Brecht
    4. Thomas Mann

11. Sturm Und Drang is a work by which prominent author?

    1. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    2. ETA Hoffmann
    3. Theodor Mommsen
    4. Freidrich Schiller

12. Oksar Matzerath is the lead character in which famous work?

    1. The Trial
    2. The Reader
    3. Faust
    4. The Tin Drum

13. Julia Franck won the German Book Prize (Deutscher Buchpreis) for which novel?

    1. The Blindess of the Heart
    2. Fly Away Pigeon
    3. Du Stirbst Nicht
    4. The Tower

14. In what year was Henircih Boll born?

    1. 1957
    2. 1917
    3. 1937
    4. 1907

15. History of Rome is a key work by which author?

    1. Hermann Hesse
    2. Thomas Mann
    3. Theodor Mommsen
    4. Bertlot Brecht

16. Frank Witzel won the German Book Prize (Deutscher Buchpreis) for which novel?

    1. Widerfarhrnis
    2. Archipel
    3. The Captial
    4. Teenager in the Somme 1969

17. Drums In the Night is the work of which German writer?

    1. Gunter Grass
    2. Johann Von Goethe
    3. Hermann Hesse
    4. Bertlot Brecht

18. Der Sandmann is a work by which Germany author?

    1. ETA Hoffmann
    2. Theodor Mommsen
    3. Thomas Mann
    4. Freidrich Schiller