Quiz  /  Byways of German Literature Quiz

  • 1. 
    Which is the earliest record of the type of popular entertainment literature that was circulated by medieval minstrels?

  • Jedermann
  • Wilhelm Meister
  • König Rother
  • Der Steppenwolf

  • 2. 
    Which German writer is chiefly remembered as the assistant and close associate of the aging author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?

  • Sophie von La Roche
  • Johann Peter Eckermann
  • Johann Heinrich Merck
  • Hermann Hesse

  • 3. 
    WhichGerman poet and visionary used a blue flower as a central image in his romance Heinrich von Ofterdingen?

  • Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Heinrich Heine
  • Novalis
  • Wolfram von Eschenbach

  • 4. 
    Which German author introduced the eternal, amoral femme fatale Lulu?

  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Alban Berg
  • G.W. Pabst
  • Frank Wedekind

  • 5. 
    In literature, what is the name, taken from German folklore, for the wraith or apparition of a living person?

  • Doppelgänger
  • Rumpelstiltskin
  • Erlkönig
  • Teufelsdrockh

  • 6. 
    Who wrote the play The Caucasian Chalk Circle?

  • Henrik Ibsen
  • Bertolt Brecht
  • Gustave Flaubert
  • Arthur Miller
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