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