The Sorrows of Young Werther Quizzes

The Sorrows of Young Werther Quiz 1

1 Before writing The Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe:
Traveled to Italy and wrote a memoir of the experience

Wrote a tragedy based on the life of Götz von Berlichingen

Was a poor laborer

Unsuccussfully attempted suicide
2 The Sorrows of Young Werther is:
An epistolatory novel

An autobiography

A narrative poem

A burlesque
3 Werther was first published in:
1800

1774

1750

1781
4 When was Goethe's revision of Werther published?
Posthumously

1777

1810

1781
5 Which of the following ISN'T true of Goethe's revision of Werther?
It is the only version widely available in an English translation

It is the version widely read today

It is considerably more sympathetic to Werther's point of view than the original

It emphasizes the editor's role in the narrative, compared to the original
6 Werther is set in:
1771-1772

The 1680s

The South of France

1774
7 Almost all of Werther's letters are addressed to:
His friend, Albert

His friend, Wilhelm

His mother

His beloved, Lotte
8 Who is Leonora?
A woman who was in love with Werther before the novel begins

A statue that Werther considers the ideal feminine form

Wilhelm's wife, about whom Werther inquires

Werther's beloved
9 Werther's family is:
Proud of him

Largely divided by misunderstanding and neglect

Almost all deceased

Happy but stifling
10 Werther compares the peasant women he sees at the well to:
Children

Women in biblical times

A ballad

Women depicted in Homer
11 As the novel begins, what is Werther's opinion of books?
He says that he needs none but his Homer

He is very fond of them

He asks Wilhelm to send his library to his new residence

He says he needs none at all
12 Werther finds the village of Wahlheim:
Stifling

Provincial

Charming

Dilapidated
13 Who are Hans and Philip?
Werther's horses

Two peasant brothers whom Werther sketches

Lotte's two youngest siblings

Werther's friends, with whom he attends a ball
14 What does Werther say he admires in a woman?
Beauty

Intellect

Physical strength

Cheerfulness
15 Bailiff S. is:
Disagreeable to Werther

The father of nine children

The father of Hans and Philip

The father of eight children
16 When Werther first sees Lotte, she is:
Wearing a green dress

Dancing with Albert at a ball

Feeding her siblings bread

Splashing in a duck pond
17 After Lotte, who is the oldest of the siblings?
Louis

Sophy

Hans

Heike
18 Who wrote The Vicar of Wakefield?
Goethe

Samuel Richardson

Jean-Jaques Rousseau

Oliver Goldsmith
19 When Werther is dancing with Lotte he:
Kisses her

Winks at her

Dances flawlessly

Stumbles
20 Werther's first meeting with Lotte is interrupted by:
His jealous partner

Albert

A musical recital

A thunderstorm
21 Who is Klopstock?
A German poet

A German artist

A German philosopher

A German composer
22 What is Werther's attitude toward Lotte's brothers and sisters?
He secretly dislikes them

He is pedantic toward them, teaching them to read and write

He considers them to be lovely models for the rest of humanity

He thinks that they are selfish with Lotte's time
23 Lotte is asked:
To bake bread for the parishioners of Wahlheim

To call off her engagement with Albert

To leave for Austria with Albert

To attend a dying woman's deathbed
24 Who does Werther berate for submitting to bad moods?
Herr Schmidt

Lotte

Albert

Friedericke
25 What is Lotte's response to Werther's attack on bad moods?
She praises his judgement and expression

She scolds him for sympathizing too warmly with everything

She says that he should write a pamphlet on the subject and promulgate his opinion

She is thrown into a bad mood herself

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There is such a book, and I believe it is by Plenzdorf and tracks an East German youth in the 1970s. It is actually quite good. It is essentially a modern update of the Sorrows of Young Werther. However, and perhaps interestingly, it reads more...

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