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