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

Was a poor laborer

Wrote a tragedy based on the life of Götz von Berlichingen

Unsuccussfully attempted suicide
2 The Sorrows of Young Werther is:
A burlesque

An autobiography

An epistolatory novel

A narrative poem
3 Werther was first published in:
1774

1800

1781

1750
4 When was Goethe's revision of Werther published?
1781

Posthumously

1777

1810
5 Which of the following ISN'T true of Goethe's revision of Werther?
It emphasizes the editor's role in the narrative, compared to the original

It is the version widely read today

It is the only version widely available in an English translation

It is considerably more sympathetic to Werther's point of view than the original
6 Werther is set in:
1774

1771-1772

The South of France

The 1680s
7 Almost all of Werther's letters are addressed to:
His friend, Wilhelm

His beloved, Lotte

His friend, Albert

His mother
8 Who is Leonora?
A statue that Werther considers the ideal feminine form

Wilhelm's wife, about whom Werther inquires

A woman who was in love with Werther before the novel begins

Werther's beloved
9 Werther's family is:
Happy but stifling

Proud of him

Largely divided by misunderstanding and neglect

Almost all deceased
10 Werther compares the peasant women he sees at the well to:
Women depicted in Homer

Children

Women in biblical times

A ballad
11 As the novel begins, what is Werther's opinion of books?
He is very fond of them

He says that he needs none but his Homer

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:
Provincial

Dilapidated

Stifling

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

Werther's friends, with whom he attends a ball

Lotte's two youngest siblings

Two peasant brothers whom Werther sketches
14 What does Werther say he admires in a woman?
Cheerfulness

Intellect

Beauty

Physical strength
15 Bailiff S. is:
The father of nine children

The father of Hans and Philip

Disagreeable to Werther

The father of eight children
16 When Werther first sees Lotte, she is:
Dancing with Albert at a ball

Splashing in a duck pond

Feeding her siblings bread

Wearing a green dress
17 After Lotte, who is the oldest of the siblings?
Hans

Sophy

Heike

Louis
18 Who wrote The Vicar of Wakefield?
Jean-Jaques Rousseau

Oliver Goldsmith

Goethe

Samuel Richardson
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

A thunderstorm

Albert

A musical recital
21 Who is Klopstock?
A German philosopher

A German composer

A German artist

A German poet
22 What is Werther's attitude toward Lotte's brothers and sisters?
He thinks that they are selfish with Lotte's time

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

He secretly dislikes them

He is pedantic toward them, teaching them to read and write
23 Lotte is asked:
To bake bread for the parishioners of Wahlheim

To leave for Austria with Albert

To call off her engagement with Albert

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

Albert

Lotte

Friedericke
25 What is Lotte's response to Werther's attack on bad moods?
She scolds him for sympathizing too warmly with everything

She praises his judgement and expression

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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