Thomas Mann - Test
Thomas Mann
  • 1. When was Thomas Mann born?
A) 1775
B) 1875
C) 1925
D) 1825
  • 2. In which country was Thomas Mann born?
A) Germany
B) Russia
C) Italy
D) France
  • 3. Which novel by Thomas Mann won the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Death in Venice
B) Doctor Faustus
C) Buddenbrooks
D) The Magic Mountain
  • 4. In which year did Thomas Mann receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) 1939
B) 1949
C) 1929
D) 1959
  • 5. What literary movement is Thomas Mann associated with?
A) Modernism
B) Romanticism
C) Realism
D) Naturalism
  • 6. Which war did Thomas Mann serve in as an ambulance driver?
A) Vietnam War
B) World War I
C) Korean War
D) World War II
  • 7. Which character is central to Mann's novel 'The Magic Mountain'?
A) Anna Karenina
B) Hans Castorp
C) Holden Caulfield
D) Oliver Twist
  • 8. What family name is associated with several of Thomas Mann's novels?
A) Johnson
B) Buddenbrook
C) Smith
D) Jones
  • 9. What is the name of the fictional town featured in Thomas Mann's novel 'Buddenbrooks'?
A) Frankfurt
B) Hamburg
C) Lübeck
D) Munich
  • 10. Which famous philosopher influenced Thomas Mann's work?
A) Nietzsche
B) Socrates
C) Kant
D) Plato
  • 11. What is the title of Thomas Mann's novel that explores the Faust legend?
A) Doctor Faustus
B) Paradise Lost
C) Infinite Jest
D) The Trial
  • 12. Which city did Paul Thomas Mann flee to when Adolf Hitler came to power?
A) Switzerland
B) France
C) United States
D) Italy
  • 13. What was the occupation of Paul Thomas Mann's father, Johann Heinrich Mann?
A) Senator and grain merchant
B) Novelist
C) Journalist
D) Philanthropist
  • 14. Which novel was inspired by Mann's visit to a sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland?
A) Buddenbrooks
B) The Magic Mountain
C) Death in Venice
D) Doctor Faustus
  • 15. Who was Paul Thomas Mann's wife and what was her family background?
A) Monika Mann, an actress
B) Katia Pringsheim, a wealthy secular Jewish industrialist family
C) Golo Mann, a historian
D) Erika Mann, a novelist
  • 16. Which city did Paul Thomas Mann move to after leaving Switzerland in 1933?
A) New York
B) Los Angeles
C) Zürich
D) Princeton
  • 17. What was the title of the tetralogy that Paul Thomas Mann wrote between 1933 and 1943?
A) Joseph and His Brothers
B) Death in Venice
C) The Magic Mountain
D) Doctor Faustus
  • 18. Which country did Paul Thomas Mann move to for the first time in 1934?
A) United States
B) Switzerland
C) Czechoslovakia
D) France
  • 19. What was the name of Paul Thomas Mann's summer property purchased by his wife in 1908?
A) Davos
B) Bad Tölz
C) Sanary-sur-Mer
D) Arosa
  • 20. Which of Paul Thomas Mann's children were significant German writers?
A) Erika, Klaus, and Golo
B) Monika, Elisabeth, and Michael
C) Thomas and Júlia
D) Heinrich and Katia
  • 21. What was the title of Paul Thomas Mann's novella published in 1912?
A) Buddenbrooks
B) Doctor Faustus
C) The Magic Mountain
D) Death in Venice
  • 22. In which year did Paul Thomas Mann become a naturalized citizen of the United States?
A) 1933
B) 1929
C) 1944
D) 1952
  • 23. What was the name of the village where Paul Thomas Mann built a cottage on the Curonian Spit?
A) Sanary-sur-Mer, France
B) Nida, Lithuania
C) Arosa, Switzerland
D) Davos, Switzerland
  • 24. Which university did Paul Thomas Mann teach at after moving to the United States?
A) Technische Hochschule München
B) University of Bonn
C) Princeton University
D) Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • 25. What was the name of Paul Thomas Mann's brother who was also a novelist?
A) Heinrich Mann
B) Golo Mann
C) Klaus Mann
D) Michael Mann
  • 26. What was the name of the street where the Manns lived in Princeton, New Jersey?
A) Poschinger Str
B) Thomas-Mann-Allee
C) 65 Stockton Street
D) 1550 San Remo Drive
  • 27. When did Thomas Mann begin his monthly anti-Nazi broadcasts?
A) September 1939
B) October 1940
C) December 1945
D) June 1941
  • 28. What did Thomas Mann criticize about Hitler and his followers in his broadcasts?
A) He ignored their actions entirely.
B) He condemned them as crude philistines out of touch with European culture.
C) He supported their cultural policies.
D) He praised their military strategies.
  • 29. What advantage did Mann mention about the war in one of his speeches?
A) It provided economic benefits to Germany.
B) It improved relations between Germany and other countries.
C) It kept Hitler from making speeches about culture.
D) It allowed Germany to expand its territory.
  • 30. What was Thomas Mann's stance among German expatriates in the U.S. regarding Nazism?
A) He advocated for collaboration with Nazis.
B) He remained neutral and silent.
C) He supported Nazi policies.
D) He was one of the few publicly active opponents.
  • 31. What did Mann say about German collective guilt after World War II?
A) He thought collective guilt was unjustified.
B) He understood why those who suffered from the Nazi regime would embrace it.
C) He denied any form of collective guilt.
D) He believed only individuals should be held accountable.
  • 32. What did Mann express regret about regarding post-war judgement?
A) That it was lenient towards Germans.
B) That it ignored economic factors.
C) That it focused too much on cultural aspects.
D) That it cannot be based on the individual.
  • 33. In what year did Thomas Mann buy his last house in Kilchberg?
A) 1949
B) 1954
C) 1956
D) 1952
  • 34. What was the initial diagnosis of Thomas Mann's condition in 1955?
A) Perforated iliac artery aneurysm
B) Thrombophlebitis
C) Retroperitoneal hematoma
D) Pulmonary embolism
  • 35. What was the unexpected bonus that Blanche Knopf sent Thomas Mann after 'Buddenbrooks' proved successful?
A) A trip to Europe.
B) An unexpected financial bonus.
C) A new publishing contract.
D) A literary award.
  • 36. What year did Thomas Mann attend celebrations for Goethe's 200th birthday?
A) 1938
B) 1924
C) 1955
D) 1949
  • 37. Which author had a particular stylistic influence on Thomas Mann?
A) Theodor Fontane
B) Nikolai Gogol
C) Arthur Schopenhauer
D) Herman Bang
  • 38. Which philosopher provided philosophical inspiration for the narrative of decline in 'Buddenbrooks'?
A) Leo Tolstoy
B) Anders Österling
C) Arthur Schopenhauer
D) Friedrich Nietzsche
  • 39. Which Russian author did Thomas Mann believe the Russians had to forget for a bourgeois revolution?
A) Tolstoy
B) Gogol
C) Dostoevsky
D) Turgenev
  • 40. Who did Thomas Mann consider an anarchist and admired for being 'courageously boring'?
A) Arthur Schopenhauer
B) Friedrich Nietzsche
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Nikolai Gogol
  • 41. Which short story by Thomas Mann was published in 1896 and is the basis for a song by Leiber and Stoller?
A) 'Disillusionment'
B) 'The Will to Happiness'
C) 'Death'
D) 'Little Herr Friedemann'
  • 42. What is the English translation of Thomas Mann's novella 'Die Betrogene: Erzählung'?
A) The Deceived
B) The Black Swan
C) Betrayer
D) Swan Song
  • 43. Which French artist did Thomas Mann reference in relation to the creative process?
A) Renoir
B) Cézanne
C) Degas
D) Monet
  • 44. Which composer's operas did Thomas Mann love, especially Richard Wagner?
A) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
B) Johann Sebastian Bach.
C) Ludwig van Beethoven.
D) Richard Wagner.
  • 45. What is the English title of Thomas Mann's novella 'Die vertauschten Köpfe – Eine indische Legende'?
A) Legends of India
B) Indian Legend: The Head Swap
C) The Swapped Heads
D) The Transposed Heads
  • 46. Which Thomas Mann novella was published in 1940?
A) The Transposed Heads (Die vertauschten Köpfe)
B) Disorder and Early Sorrow
C) Death in Venice
D) Mario and the Magician
  • 47. In which year was 'The Buddenbrooks' translated by Mike Mitchell published?
A) 1999
B) 2023
C) 2026
D) 1988
  • 48. In which year was 'Stories of Three Decades' first published in America?
A) 1970
B) 1963
C) 1936
D) 1922
  • 49. In which film does an unnamed German man invoke The Magic Mountain to condemn arming regimes?
A) Frederic Tuten's adaptation
B) The 1941 film 49th Parallel
C) Hayao Miyazaki's 2013 film The Wind Rises
D) Gore Verbinski's A Cure For Wellness
  • 50. Which essay by David Rakoff humorously compares Mann's Aschenbach with E. B. White's character?
A) 'Annie Hall'
B) "Shrimp"
C) 'Grey Gardens'
D) 'A Good Year'
  • 51. Which institution hosts the TMI-Research platform?
A) Buddenbrookhaus
B) Thomas Mann House (Los Angeles)
C) Monacensia im Hildebrandhaus
D) ETH Zurich
  • 52. Which Thomas Mann novella was translated as 'Disorder and Early Sorrow' by H. T. Lowe-Porter?
A) Unordnung und frühes Leid
B) Tristan
C) Death in Venice
D) The Blood of the Walsungs
  • 53. Which musical style plays a central role in 'Doctor Faustus'?
A) Neue Musik (New Music).
B) Baroque music.
C) Classical music.
D) Romantic music.
  • 54. What is the title of the story included in 'Tonio Kröger and Other Stories' (1970) but not in 'Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories' (1963)?
A) "Mario and the Magician"
B) "Tonio Kröger"
C) "Little Herr Friedemann"
D) "Death in Venice"
  • 55. In which year was Thomas Mann's short story 'The Road to the Churchyard' published?
A) 1896
B) 1903
C) 1899
D) 1900
  • 56. What is the English title of Thomas Mann's play 'Luthers Hochzeit'?
A) The Wedding of Luther
B) Luther's Marriage
C) Luther: The Union
D) Martin Luther and His Wife
  • 57. Who famously recorded Leiber and Stoller's song 'Is That All There Is?'?
A) Aretha Franklin
B) Peggy Lee
C) Diana Ross
D) Etta James
  • 58. Who is the young boy that Aschenbach becomes obsessed with in 'Death in Venice'?
A) Tadzio, a 14-year-old Polish boy.
B) Klaus Heuser.
C) Pribislav Hippe.
D) Hanno Buddenbrook.
  • 59. What is the title of Colm Tóibín's fictionalized biography about Thomas Mann?
A) The Magician
B) Tales from Hollywood
C) Königsallee
D) Fatherland
  • 60. In which novel is the main character criticized for reading The Magic Mountain while visiting a friend in a sanatorium?
A) Frederic Tuten's Tintin in the New World
B) Andrew Crumey's Mobius Dick
C) Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion
D) Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood (1987)
  • 61. Which novel reprises key plot elements from The Magic Mountain, including an alpine sanatorium for tuberculosis?
A) Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium
B) Andrew Crumey's Mobius Dick
C) Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood
D) Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion
  • 62. Which play by Girish Karnad was based on a theme from Thomas Mann's 'The Transposed Heads'?
A) Tales from Hollywood
B) Königsallee
C) Hayavadana
D) Fatherland
  • 63. Who directed the German version of Girish Karnad's play 'Hayavadana'?
A) Paweł Pawlikowski
B) Vijaya Mehta
C) Sidney Goldfarb
D) Julie Taymor
  • 64. Who directed the famous film adaptation of Mann's novella 'Death in Venice' released in 1971?
A) Benjamin Britten
B) Joseph Heller
C) Luchino Visconti
D) Woody Allen
  • 65. Which story is included in 'Six Early Stories' (1997) but not in 'Death in Venice and Other Tales' (1998)?
A) "Little Herr Friedemann"
B) "A Vision: 'Prose Sketch'"
C) "The Will for Happiness"
D) "Tobias Mindernickel"
  • 66. In which year was Thomas Mann's novella 'Tonio Kröger' published?
A) 1901
B) 1903
C) 1912
D) 1925
  • 67. Who portrayed Thomas Mann in the film 'Fatherland'?
A) Christopher Hampton
B) Hanns Zischler
C) Colm Tóibín
D) Paweł Pawlikowski
  • 68. In which year did Thomas Mann urge unity behind the Social Democrats?
A) 1922.
B) 1943.
C) 1930.
D) 1918.
  • 69. Which story is included in 'Death in Venice and Other Tales' (1998) but not in 'Six Early Stories' (1997)?
A) "A Vision: 'Prose Sketch'"
B) "Fallen"
C) "Little Lizzy"
D) "The Will to Happiness"
  • 70. Which film released in 2006 references 'Death in Venice'?
A) Daria
B) Annie Hall
C) 'A Good Year'
D) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
  • 71. In which MTV animated series does a character receive 'Death in Venice' as a gift?
A) Daria
B) The Habit of Art
C) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
D) 'A Good Year'
  • 72. Who translated 'Death in Venice and Other Tales' published in 1998?
A) Jefferson Chase
B) David Luke
C) Joachim Neugroschel
D) Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter
  • 73. Which novel by Joseph Heller references 'Death in Venice'?
A) The Human Stain
B) 'A Good Year'
C) Closing Time (1994)
D) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
  • 74. In which novel does a character purchase a Thomas Mann novel and wonder about the magic mountain?
A) Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion (1964)
B) Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood
C) Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium
D) Andrew Crumey's Mobius Dick
  • 75. Which story is included in both 'Death in Venice and Other Stories' (1999) and 'Tonio Kröger and Other Stories' (1970)?
A) "Death in Venice"
B) "Tonio Kröger"
C) "The Blood of the Walsungs"
D) "Tristan"
  • 76. Which film directed by Gore Verbinski is inspired by The Magic Mountain?
A) The Wind Rises
B) Tintin in the New World
C) A Cure For Wellness
D) 49th Parallel
  • 77. Which novel by Philip Roth references 'Death in Venice'?
A) The Human Stain (2000)
B) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
C) Portuguese Irregular Verbs
D) Closing Time
  • 78. Which book relates the 'time-experience' of Holocaust prisoners to TB patients in The Magic Mountain?
A) Andrew Crumey's Mobius Dick
B) Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning
C) Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood
D) Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion
  • 79. In which years was the musical adaptation of 'The Transposed Heads' produced in Philadelphia and New York?
A) 2013
B) 1994
C) 2006
D) 1988
  • 80. What is the English title of Thomas Mann's novel 'Königliche Hoheit'?
A) Kingly Majesty
B) The Royal One
C) Royal Highness
D) Highness
  • 81. In which year was Thomas Mann's novella 'Death in Venice' published?
A) 1912
B) 1925
C) 1905
D) 1939
  • 82. What is the title of Thomas Mann's short story published in 1897 that involves a character named Luischen?
A) 'Death'
B) 'The Dilettante'
C) 'The Clown'
D) 'Luischen'
  • 83. Who portrayed Erika Mann in the film 'Fatherland'?
A) Julie Taymor
B) Peggy Lee
C) Vijaya Mehta
D) Sandra Hüller
  • 84. Which composer created an operatic adaptation of 'Death in Venice' in 1973?
A) Rufus Wainwright
B) Philip Roth
C) Benjamin Britten
D) Alan Bennett
  • 85. In which Woody Allen film is 'Death in Venice' referenced?
A) 'A Good Year'
B) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
C) Annie Hall (1977)
D) Daria
  • 86. In which novel does an author named Behring write novels resembling Mann's, including a version of The Magic Mountain?
A) Andrew Crumey's Mobius Dick (2004)
B) Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises
C) Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning
D) Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood
  • 87. Which translator's work on 'The Magic Mountain' was published in 2026?
A) Simon Pare
B) Mike Mitchell
C) Damion Searls
D) Ritchie Robertson
  • 88. Which album by Father John Misty contains a song titled 'So I'm Growing Old on Magic Mountain'?
A) Pure Comedy (2017)
B) P.D.Q. Bach's "Bluegrass Cantata"
C) "Magic Mountain" by Blonde Redhead
D) The Empusium soundtrack
  • 89. Which German author did Thomas Mann admire and emulate throughout his life?
A) Schopenhauer
B) Goethe
C) Fontane
D) Dostoevsky
  • 90. Who translated the 1963 compilation 'Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories'?
A) David Luke
B) Joachim Neugroschel
C) Jefferson Chase
D) Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter
  • 91. Which translator's work on 'Doctor Faustus' was published in 2026?
A) Damion Searls
B) Ritchie Robertson
C) Mike Mitchell
D) Simon Pare
  • 92. Which translator was working on a new English version of 'Buddenbrooks' as mentioned by Lesley Chamberlain?
A) Jefferson Chase
B) Lesley Chamberlain
C) Joachim Neugroschel
D) Damion Searls
  • 93. Which story is included in 'Death in Venice and Other Tales' (1998) but not in 'Tonio Kröger and Other Stories' (1970)?
A) "The Joker"
B) "Tobias Mindernickel"
C) "Tristan"
D) "Little Herr Friedemann"
  • 94. Which translator worked on 'New Selected Stories' published in 2023?
A) Damion Searls
B) Joachim Neugroschel
C) Jefferson Chase
D) Peter Constantine
  • 95. Which of Thomas Mann's short stories was published in 1903 and involves a child prodigy?
A) 'The Child Prodigy/The Infant Prodigy/The Wunderkind'
B) 'Disillusionment'
C) 'Fallen'
D) 'A Vision (Prose Sketch)'
  • 96. In which film does a character unknowingly praise Mann's work to an escaped Nazi U-boat commander?
A) Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises
B) Frederic Tuten's adaptation
C) Gore Verbinski's A Cure For Wellness
D) The 1941 film 49th Parallel
  • 97. Which translator was reported to be working on 'The Magic Mountain' in 2024?
A) Mike Mitchell
B) Simon Pare
C) Damion Searls
D) Susan Bernofsky
  • 98. In which novel does Alexander McCall Smith refer to 'Death in Venice'?
A) Portuguese Irregular Verbs (1997)
B) Half Empty
C) 'A Good Year'
D) Daria
  • 99. In what year did Lesley Chamberlain mention Mann's works coming out of copyright in the US?
A) 2026
B) 2023
C) 1998
D) 2024
  • 100. Which Rufus Wainwright song mentions a character from 'Death in Venice'?
A) 'Grey Gardens'
B) 'A Good Year'
C) 'Annie Hall'
D) 'One J at a Time'
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