E. T. A. Hoffmann - Quiz
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  • 1. On what date did Prussia declare war against France?
A) 4 June
B) 25 March
C) 16 March
D) 8 May
  • 2. Whom did Hoffmann meet by surprise on 26 March?
A) Seconda
B) A soldier
C) Hippel
D) His wife
  • 3. How long had it been since Hoffmann last saw Hippel?
A) Two years
B) Nine years
C) Twelve years
D) Five years
  • 4. What happened to the bridges on 8 May?
A) They were closed to the public
B) They were destroyed
C) They were captured
D) They were reinforced
  • 5. What event occurred on 20 May during the journey to Leipzig?
A) The loss of luggage
B) A confrontation with soldiers
C) A robbery
D) A coach accident
  • 6. Who was injured in the coach accident involving Hoffmann?
A) His daughter
B) Seconda
C) Hippel
D) His wife
  • 7. When did Hoffmann begin working with Seconda's orchestra?
A) 4 June
B) 23 May
C) 25 March
D) 22 August
  • 8. What began on 4 June that allowed the company to return to Dresden?
A) A military parade
B) A holiday
C) A peace treaty
D) An armistice
  • 9. Why did the family relocate on 22 August?
A) Financial problems
B) The end of the armistice
C) To escape the plague
D) Seconda ordered it
  • 10. What is the title of the work where Hoffmann describes the battlefield of Dresden?
A) The Battle of Dresden
B) Memoirs of a Jurist
C) War in Leipzig
D) Vision auf dem Schlachtfeld bei Dresden
  • 11. When did the town of Dresden surrender?
A) 4 June
B) 11 November
C) 22 August
D) 9 December
  • 12. On what date did the company travel to Leipzig after the surrender of Dresden?
A) 26 February
B) 9 December
C) 11 November
D) 25 February
  • 13. When did Hoffmann quarrel with Seconda?
A) 22 August
B) 26 February
C) 25 February
D) 11 November
  • 14. How long was the notice Hoffmann was given by Seconda?
A) Twelve weeks
B) One month
C) Nine weeks
D) Six months
  • 15. What career did Hoffmann return to after being visited by Hippel in July?
A) Orchestra musician
B) Diplomat
C) Soldier
D) Jurist
  • 16. Which city did Hoffmann consider the site of the happiest years of his life?
A) Berlin
B) Dresden
C) Bamberg
D) Warsaw
  • 17. Who was Hoffmann's future biographer and neighbour in Warsaw?
A) Adelbert von Chamisso
B) Zacharias Werner
C) Julius Eduard Itzig
D) August Wilhelm Schlegel
  • 18. To what name did Julius Eduard Itzig change his name after his baptism?
A) Amadeus
B) Hitzig
C) Kreisler
D) Nordstern
  • 19. Which literary group was Itzig a member of?
A) The Fourth Coalition
B) Nordstern
C) The Bamberg Circle
D) Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung
  • 20. Which event caused the Prussian bureaucrats in Warsaw to lose their jobs in 1806?
A) The death of his daughter
B) A severe illness
C) The closing of the Bamberg Theatre
D) Napoleon's troops captured Warsaw
  • 21. To which city did Hoffmann's wife and daughter return in 1807?
A) Posen
B) Würzburg
C) Vienna
D) Leipzig
  • 22. What caused a six-month delay in Hoffmann's relocation from Warsaw?
A) Refusal to swear allegiance
B) The death of his wife
C) Severe illness
D) Lack of money
  • 23. In what year did Hoffmann arrive in Berlin after leaving Warsaw?
A) 1807
B) 1806
C) 1808
D) 1809
  • 24. What musical work did Hoffmann compose during his difficult time in occupied Berlin?
A) Six Canticles
B) Ritter Gluck
C) The Beethoven Symphonies
D) Lebensansichten des Katers Murr
  • 25. In what city did Hoffmann begin his job as theatre manager in 1808?
A) Dresden
B) Bamberg
C) Leipzig
D) Warsaw
  • 26. Who was the director of the Bamberg theatre who left for Würzburg shortly after Hoffmann's arrival?
A) Heinrich Cuno
B) Joseph Seconda
C) Count Soden
D) David Ferdinand Koreff
  • 27. Hoffmann wrote well-received articles about which composer for the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung?
A) Mozart
B) Gluck
C) Bach
D) Beethoven
  • 28. Which character made his first appearance in the pages of the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung?
A) Amadeus
B) Johannes Kreisler
C) Ritter Gluck
D) Kater Murr
  • 29. What was the title of the story that marked Hoffmann's breakthrough in 1809?
A) Lebensansichten des Katers Murr
B) Six Canticles
C) Ritter Gluck
D) The North Star
  • 30. Who invented the term Doppelgänger, influencing Hoffmann's work?
A) Novalis
B) Carlo Gozzi
C) Jean Paul
D) Ludwig Tieck
  • 31. What initials appear on Hoffmann's gravestone?
A) E. T. H.
B) E. T. W.
C) E. T. A.
D) J. E. H.
  • 32. What was the name of the young singing student Hoffmann fell in love with?
A) Rahel Levin
B) Sophie Tieck
C) Cäcilia
D) Julia Marc
  • 33. Who offered Hoffmann a position as musical director in Dresden?
A) Joseph Seconda
B) Count Soden
C) Julius Hitzig
D) Heinrich Cuno
  • 34. Who was Hoffmann's employer in Glogau starting in 1796?
A) Iffland
B) Hippol
C) Kotzebue
D) Johann Ludwig Doerffer
  • 35. Which artists' work particularly amazed Hoffmann in the Dresden gallery?
A) Da Vinci and Michelangelo
B) Correggio and Raphael
C) Rembrandt and Rubens
D) Bach and Beethoven
  • 36. In what year did Hoffmann move to Berlin for the first time?
A) 1798
B) 1796
C) 1804
D) 1800
  • 37. What was the name of the operetta Hoffmann sent to Queen Luise of Prussia?
A) Die Posen
B) Der Preis
C) Die Freimüthige
D) Die Maske
  • 38. Who was the director of the Royal Theatre that Hoffmann was advised to contact?
A) Iffland
B) Johann Ludwig Doerffer
C) Kotzebue
D) Hippol
  • 39. What kind of behavior did Hoffmann exhibit after moving to the Prussian provinces in 1800?
A) Dissolute
B) Disciplined
C) Academic
D) Religious
  • 40. To which city was Hoffmann 'promoted' after the caricature incident?
A) Thorn
B) Dresden
C) Płock
D) Glogau
  • 41. What was Hoffmann's wife's name?
A) Mischa
B) Dora Hatt
C) Queen Luise
D) Minna Doerffer
  • 42. What date did Hoffmann begin his diary?
A) 1 June 1800
B) 1 October 1803
C) 1 January 1804
D) 1 August 1802
  • 43. What was the title of the play Hoffmann entered into the competition in Die Freimüthige?
A) Płock
B) Die Maske
C) Die Freimüthige
D) Der Preis
  • 44. What was the prize offered for the competition in Die Freimüthige?
A) A position at the Royal Theatre
B) 100 Friedrichs d'or
C) 50 Friedrichs d'or
D) A musical residency
  • 45. Which family member died during Hoffmann's sad period in the provinces?
A) His wife Mischa
B) Uncle J. L. Hoffmann
C) His friend Hippel
D) His sister Minna
  • 46. Which city did Hoffmann never return to after 1804?
A) Berlin
B) Płock
C) Posen
D) Königsberg
  • 47. What was E. T. A. Hoffmann's original middle name?
A) Theodor
B) Ludwig
C) Amadeus
D) Wilhelm
  • 48. Which genre is E. T. A. Hoffmann's 'The Sandman' considered a pioneering work of?
A) Science fiction
B) Historical fiction
C) Satire
D) Horror fiction
  • 49. What is the novella 'Mademoiselle de Scuderi' regarded as an early example of?
A) Travel literature
B) Political allegory
C) Romance fiction
D) Crime fiction
  • 50. Which Tchaikovsky ballet is based on a novella by Hoffmann?
A) Sleeping Beauty
B) The Nutcracker
C) Swan Lake
D) Coppélia
  • 51. Which composer wrote 'Kreisleriana' based on a character by Hoffmann?
A) Schumann
B) Offenbach
C) Tchaikovsky
D) Schiller
  • 52. What profession did Hoffmann's father practice?
A) Doctor
B) Architect
C) Barrister
D) Merchant
  • 53. What nickname did Hoffmann give his uncle Otto Wilhelm Doerffer?
A) Tante Füßchen
B) O Weh
C) Der Geheimnisvolle
D) Onkel Ludwig
  • 54. What school did Hoffmann attend between 1781 and 1792?
A) Royal Academy
B) Lutheran Seminary
C) University of Königsberg
D) Burgschule
  • 55. Which philosopher's lectures did Hoffmann attend in 1792?
A) Friedrich Schiller
B) Jonathan Swift
C) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
D) Immanuel Kant
  • 56. In 1794, to whom did Hoffmann give music lessons?
A) Charlotte Wilhelmine Doerffer
B) Dora Hatt
C) Johanna Sophie Doerffer
D) Lovisa Albertina Doerffer
  • 57. In what year did Hoffmann return to Berlin?
A) 1814
B) 1807
C) 1822
D) 1819
  • 58. What was the name of Hoffmann's opera that had a successful run at the Berlin Theatre?
A) Cardillac
B) Meister Floh
C) Undine
D) Kreisleriana
  • 59. Who was the Commissioner that Hoffmann caricatured in his story 'Meister Floh'?
A) Metternich
B) Frederick William III
C) Jahn
D) Kamptz
  • 60. What was the official cause of Hoffmann's death?
A) Respiratory paralysis
B) Pneumonia
C) Heart attack
D) Stroke
  • 61. At what age did Hoffmann die?
A) 50
B) 46
C) 42
D) 38
  • 62. Which movement is Hoffmann considered a best-known representative of?
A) Classicists
B) Realism
C) Naturalism
D) German Romanticism
  • 63. Which author was influenced by Hoffmann?
A) Mark Twain
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Jane Austen
D) Leo Tolstoy
  • 64. Which work by Hoffmann is sometimes cited as the first detective story?
A) Das Fräulein von Scuderi
B) Tomcat Murr
C) The Nutcracker
D) Meister Floh
  • 65. Who characterized Hoffmann's works as Menippean Satire?
A) Friedrich Schnapp
B) Paul Hindemith
C) Mikhail Bakhtin
D) Charles Rosen
  • 66. In the novel about Tomcat Murr, what is the character Kreisler's profession?
A) Lawyer
B) Musician
C) Doctor
D) Painter
  • 67. Which critic claimed E. T. A. Hoffmann laid the groundwork for enduring science fiction themes?
A) Martin Willis
B) Callot
C) E. F. Bleiler
D) Algis Budrys
  • 68. According to Martin Willis, what context is Hoffmann's work contemporary with?
A) Frankenstein
B) The Enlightenment
C) The Romantic Period
D) The Industrial Revolution
  • 69. Which of these short stories by Hoffmann is explicitly mentioned as an example of his interest in machine culture?
A) Don Juan
B) The Golden Pot
C) Ritter Gluck
D) Automata
  • 70. What is the publication year of 'The Sandman' according to the text?
A) 1818
B) 1814
C) 1816
D) 1819
  • 71. In what year was 'Die Elixiere des Teufels' published?
A) 1819
B) 1814
C) 1817
D) 1815
  • 72. Which story collection was published in 1814?
A) Die Serapionsbrüder
B) Letzte Erzählungen
C) Fantasiestücke in Callots Manier
D) Nachtstücke
  • 73. Which work was published in 1822?
A) Lebensansichten des Katers Murr
B) Die Geheimnisse
C) Meister Floh
D) Prinzessin Brambilla
  • 74. What was the publication year of 'Prinzessin Brambilla'?
A) 1822
B) 1820
C) 1821
D) 1819
  • 75. What is the publication year of 'Seltsame Leiden eines Theater-Direktors'?
A) 1814
B) 1822
C) 1820
D) 1819
  • 76. In what year was the Mass in D minor composed?
A) 1807
B) 1805
C) 1809
D) 1811
  • 77. Who wrote the libretto for the Singspiel 'Die lustigen Musikanten'?
A) E. T. A. Hoffmann
B) Julius von Soden
C) Clemens Brentano
D) Joseph von Seyfried
  • 78. Which author included E. T. A. Hoffmann as a character named 'ETAH' in their novel?
A) Alexandre Dumas
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Ingmar Bergman
D) Robertson Davies
  • 79. Sigmund Freud provided a psychoanalytic analysis of which Hoffmann story?
A) Die Maske
B) The Sandman
C) Undine
D) Klein Zaches
  • 80. Which German classical metal band is named after a Hoffmann character?
A) Zinnober
B) Julius Sabinus
C) Coppelius
D) Arnulph Vollweiler
  • 81. What happened to the Russian show 'Puppets' after portraying Putin as Klein Zaches?
A) It was cancelled
B) It won an award
C) It was extended
D) It was rebranded
  • 82. What was the pseudonym used by Hoffmann for his lost 1814 work?
A) Arnulph Vollweiler
B) Clemens Brentano
C) Julius von Soden
D) Joseph von Seyfried
  • 83. In what year was the Miserere in B Minor composed?
A) 1809
B) 1807
C) 1805
D) 1812
  • 84. Which instrument is featured in the 'Harp Quintet in C minor' (1807)?
A) Harp
B) Piano
C) Violin
D) Cello
  • 85. The 'Tre Canzonette italiane' was composed in which year?
A) 1811
B) 1807
C) 1808
D) 1812
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