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

Unsuccussfully attempted suicide

Was a poor laborer

Wrote a tragedy based on the life of Götz von Berlichingen
2 The Sorrows of Young Werther is:
An autobiography

A burlesque

An epistolatory novel

A narrative poem
3 Werther was first published in:
1800

1750

1781

1774
4 When was Goethe's revision of Werther published?
1777

1810

1781

Posthumously
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 emphasizes the editor's role in the narrative, compared to the original

It is the version widely read today

It is considerably more sympathetic to Werther's point of view than the original
6 Werther is set in:
1771-1772

1774

The 1680s

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

His friend, Albert

His beloved, Lotte

His mother
8 Who is Leonora?
Wilhelm's wife, about whom Werther inquires

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

A statue that Werther considers the ideal feminine form

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

Largely divided by misunderstanding and neglect

Happy but stifling

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 he needs none at all

He asks Wilhelm to send his library to his new residence

He says that he needs none but his Homer
12 Werther finds the village of Wahlheim:
Charming

Dilapidated

Provincial

Stifling
13 Who are Hans and Philip?
Two peasant brothers whom Werther sketches

Lotte's two youngest siblings

Werther's horses

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

Cheerfulness

Beauty

Intellect
15 Bailiff S. is:
The father of nine children

The father of eight children

Disagreeable to Werther

The father of Hans and Philip
16 When Werther first sees Lotte, she is:
Feeding her siblings bread

Splashing in a duck pond

Wearing a green dress

Dancing with Albert at a ball
17 After Lotte, who is the oldest of the siblings?
Heike

Sophy

Louis

Hans
18 Who wrote The Vicar of Wakefield?
Oliver Goldsmith

Samuel Richardson

Goethe

Jean-Jaques Rousseau
19 When Werther is dancing with Lotte he:
Dances flawlessly

Stumbles

Winks at her

Kisses her
20 Werther's first meeting with Lotte is interrupted by:
A musical recital

A thunderstorm

Albert

His jealous partner
21 Who is Klopstock?
A German philosopher

A German composer

A German poet

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

He secretly dislikes them

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

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

To attend a dying woman's deathbed

To call off her engagement with Albert

To leave for Austria with Albert
24 Who does Werther berate for submitting to bad moods?
Herr Schmidt

Lotte

Friedericke

Albert
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 is thrown into a bad mood herself

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

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