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Which of the following novels is/ are NOT by Thomas Mann?
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169 times |
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72 times (32.7%) |
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97 times (44.1%) |
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The movie "The Blue Angel," starring Marlene Dietrich, is based on a novel by ...?
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131 times |
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74 times (35.4%) |
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57 times (27.3%) |
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Who of the following wrote a play or novel named (in whole or in part) for Dr. (Doctor/Doktor) Faustus?
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260 times |
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80 times (26.0%) |
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180 times (58.4%) |
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48 times (15.6%) |
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Which of the following is NOT the title of a novel by Klaus Mann (son of German Nobel laureate Thomas Mann)?
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106 times |
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62 times (28.2%) |
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difficult |
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44 times (20.0%) |
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114 times (51.8%) |
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Which novel by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann concerns the incestuous child of the twins Wiligis and Sibylla?
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127 times |
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47 times (20.6%) |
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difficult |
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80 times (35.1%) |
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101 times (44.3%) |
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What is the profession of Gustav von Aschenbach in Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice"?
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177 times |
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102 times (34.3%) |
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difficult |
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75 times (25.3%) |
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120 times (40.4%) |
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What language does Tadzio speak in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice?
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178 times |
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123 times (43.0%) |
| Difficulty: |
medium |
| Incorrect: |
55 times (19.2%) |
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108 times (37.8%) |
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Which one of Thomas Mann's novels opens with these words: "Very deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?"
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105 times |
| Correct: |
59 times (28.8%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
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46 times (22.4%) |
| Skipped: |
100 times (48.8%) |
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Thomas Mann's novel Lotte in Weimar was written in response to a famous work of German literature by which classic writer?
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| Answered: |
603 times |
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403 times (39.3%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
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200 times (19.5%) |
| Skipped: |
423 times (41.2%) |
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Shortly before his death a great 20th-century novelist read Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor (calling it "the most beautiful story in the world") and exclaimed "O could I have written that!" Who is the novelist in question?
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| Answered: |
108 times |
| Correct: |
40 times (25.5%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
| Incorrect: |
68 times (43.3%) |
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49 times (31.2%) |
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Most of the operas of Benjamin Britten are based on great works of literature. Which of these novelists is the only writer on whose works Britten based two of his operas?
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89 times |
| Correct: |
26 times (16.9%) |
| Difficulty: |
very difficult |
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63 times (40.9%) |
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65 times (42.2%) |
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Aschenbach, while in Venice on vacation, becomes obsessed with
Death in Venice
Thomas Mann
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154 times |
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108 times (37.1%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
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46 times (15.8%) |
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137 times (47.1%) |
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In Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice", what is the nationality of the boy with whom Aschenbach becomes obsessed?
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| Answered: |
206 times |
| Correct: |
85 times (16.3%) |
| Difficulty: |
very difficult |
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121 times (23.2%) |
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315 times (60.5%) |
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Novel by Thomas Mann: The Magic __________?
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| Answered: |
388 times |
| Correct: |
336 times (56.2%) |
| Difficulty: |
medium |
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52 times (8.7%) |
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210 times (35.1%) |
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In Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, his protagonist, Gustave Aschenbach, is a
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165 times |
| Correct: |
76 times (25.8%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
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89 times (30.2%) |
| Skipped: |
130 times (44.1%) |
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Which member of Thomas Mann's immediate family wrote the novel on which the 1930 film THE BLUE ANGEL is based?
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102 times |
| Correct: |
51 times (24.8%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
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51 times (24.8%) |
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104 times (50.5%) |
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Several members of the Mann family of Lubeck, Germany became famous as novelists. Which one of these (closely related to the others) was NOT a novelist?
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117 times |
| Correct: |
62 times (31.5%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
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55 times (27.9%) |
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80 times (40.6%) |
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Which Nobel laureate was described by Isaac Bashevis Singer (who translated several of his works) as the "father of modern literature"?
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78 times |
| Correct: |
25 times (20.8%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
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53 times (44.2%) |
| Skipped: |
42 times (35.0%) |
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Angela Carter, Thomas Mann, William Golding, Terry Pratchett.
Which word links all four authors?
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702 times |
| Correct: |
542 times (62.6%) |
| Difficulty: |
medium |
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160 times (18.5%) |
| Skipped: |
164 times (18.9%) |
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The Swiss town of Vevey can boast of an impressive list of famous past residents. Which of the following, however, is NOT one of them?
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82 times |
| Correct: |
10 times (8.1%) |
| Difficulty: |
really really difficult |
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72 times (58.1%) |
| Skipped: |
42 times (33.9%) |
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Which author exchanged letters regular with Herman Hesse?
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256 times |
| Correct: |
112 times (19.9%) |
| Difficulty: |
very difficult |
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144 times (25.6%) |
| Skipped: |
307 times (54.5%) |
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Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy was inspired by ...
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293 times |
| Correct: |
55 times (9.7%) |
| Difficulty: |
really really difficult |
| Incorrect: |
238 times (42.0%) |
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274 times (48.3%) |
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Fill in the missing title in this statement made by the incomparable Thomas Mann towards the end of his life:
"I often think it would have been better if I had passed away after __________. That was a serious, powerful book that would have rounded off my life's work, the lightweight sequels to which often seem embarrasingly superfluous."
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| Answered: |
57 times |
| Correct: |
19 times (19.8%) |
| Difficulty: |
very difficult |
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38 times (39.6%) |
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39 times (40.6%) |
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Who said of William Shakespeare that nothing could be "more trivial and contemptible than his work" and that the implications of his plays "are of the basest, most immoral kind"?
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88 times |
| Correct: |
21 times (16.2%) |
| Difficulty: |
very difficult |
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67 times (51.5%) |
| Skipped: |
42 times (32.3%) |
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Who wrote this in his obituary of George Bernard Shaw?
"I never went to see him -- out of kindness. For I was convinced, and still am, that he had never read a line of mine, and that would have embarrassed him as well as me."
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70 times |
| Correct: |
8 times (7.5%) |
| Difficulty: |
really really difficult |
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62 times (58.5%) |
| Skipped: |
36 times (34.0%) |
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Fill in the missing name in this statement by Thomas Mann:
"In _________, Germany had experienced something of the order of a birth of poetry from the spirit of cricitism."
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| Answered: |
64 times |
| Correct: |
15 times (15.6%) |
| Difficulty: |
very difficult |
| Incorrect: |
49 times (51.0%) |
| Skipped: |
32 times (33.3%) |
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Fill in the missing name in this statement by Thomas Mann:
"Even the last of the species can with modest pride recognize his own affliction, his own happiness in __________"
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| Answered: |
49 times |
| Correct: |
10 times (12.3%) |
| Difficulty: |
very difficult |
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39 times (48.1%) |
| Skipped: |
32 times (39.5%) |
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Who asked the following:
"What is the point of writing if it is not an intellectual and moral endeavour to encompass a problematic ego?"
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| Answered: |
58 times |
| Correct: |
21 times (24.4%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
| Incorrect: |
37 times (43.0%) |
| Skipped: |
28 times (32.6%) |
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Which modern German author declared himself to be "Goethe's mythical heir, walking in his traces"?
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| Answered: |
61 times |
| Correct: |
25 times (29.1%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
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36 times (41.9%) |
| Skipped: |
25 times (29.1%) |
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Which great novelist wrote this to a friend (also a famed writer) after finishing his masterpiece?
"In me divine magnanimities are spontaneous and instantaneous -- catch them while you can. The world goes round, and the other side comes up. So now I can't write what I felt."
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71 times |
| Correct: |
21 times (17.9%) |
| Difficulty: |
very difficult |
| Incorrect: |
50 times (42.7%) |
| Skipped: |
46 times (39.3%) |
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