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The Gibbin House - Honors Level quiz
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Test yourself on all the art historical and literary references tucked away in this novel!
When protagonist Anka describes the sense of feeling adrift on her journey to London, she compares herself to the shipwrecked victims on the Raft of the Medusa. Who does she say is the artist of this famous French painting?
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Delacroix
Ingres
Gericault
Courbet
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Anka arrives in the London suburb of Hampstead, glad to discover that it resembles a bucolic village. Which English painter does her companion Alfred Deisler mention as being known for having depicted this area?
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Constable
Turner
Millais
Leighton
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Anka fondly recalls her love of art, and the way she liked to place herself as characters in the paintings. In the group portraits, for which the French painter Fatin-Latour is so famous for, which dreamy poet does she imagine herself as?
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Malarme
Rimbaud
Baudelaire
Valery
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A popular Swedish children's book serves as the hiding place for Anka's treasured family photograph during her train journey from Vienna to London. What is the title? (Hint: Nobel Prize Winner Selma Lagerlof wrote this charming book to educate children on Sweden's geography)
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Pippi Longstocking
The Girl from the Marshes
Ronia the Robber's Daughter
Nils Holgersson
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During their afternoons in the study, Theodor and Anka like to recommend books to each other in an effort to strengthen their friendship. One in particular, "The Book of Images" was a favorite of her mother's with poems that highlight the somberness of autumn. Name the poet, whose lines Anka fondly quotes to Theodor.
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Rilke
Heine
Goethe
Schiller
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When Theodor references lines about the 'blushful Hippocrene', as the kind of reading he might indulge in on a sunny day, who is he quoting?
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Wordsworth
Keats
Shelley
Coleridge
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Theodor tells Anka about the afternoon of the 1908 Kunstschau, which introduced Kokoschka (and him) to the world of art. Theodor's brother at the time is in love with an actress who meets a tragic end. What Oscar Wilde work is she an understudy for that afternoon?
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Salome
Lady Windemere's Fan
Birth of the Infanta
An Ideal Husband
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To which Buechner play about the struggle of the proletariat does Martin have plans to invite Raluca, but then changes his mind after their quarrel? (Hint: a speech from the play is quoted on the first page of 'Gibbin House')
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Danton's Death
Leonce and Lena
Wozzeck
Die Brandstifter
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In his first encounter with Theodor, a young Professor Deisler bemoans the depiction of the female form in the paintings of Fragonard and Ingres. Which famous portrait of Ingres's does he reference for its 'ungodly' serpentine spine?
Odalisque with Slave
Roger Freeing Angelica
Bathing Woman
Olympia
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When Raluca and Anian happen on Albert Hellert and Martin in the Café Ebers, the eminent art dealer is announcing that Thomas Mann is scheduled to visit Vienna? To which other famous German writer does the conversation turn next? (Hint: He is said to have gone mad during a thunder storm)
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Kleist
Holderlin
Hofmannsthal
Schnitzler
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