Thomas Mann - Quiz
Thomas Mann
  • 1. When was Thomas Mann born?
A) 1775
B) 1825
C) 1925
D) 1875
  • 2. In which country was Thomas Mann born?
A) Germany
B) Russia
C) France
D) Italy
  • 3. Which novel by Thomas Mann won the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Doctor Faustus
B) The Magic Mountain
C) Death in Venice
D) Buddenbrooks
  • 4. In which year did Thomas Mann receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) 1929
B) 1959
C) 1939
D) 1949
  • 5. What literary movement is Thomas Mann associated with?
A) Realism
B) Romanticism
C) Modernism
D) Naturalism
  • 6. Which war did Thomas Mann serve in as an ambulance driver?
A) Vietnam War
B) World War I
C) Korean War
D) World War II
  • 7. Which character is central to Mann's novel 'The Magic Mountain'?
A) Holden Caulfield
B) Oliver Twist
C) Anna Karenina
D) Hans Castorp
  • 8. What family name is associated with several of Thomas Mann's novels?
A) Jones
B) Buddenbrook
C) Smith
D) Johnson
  • 9. What is the name of the fictional town featured in Thomas Mann's novel 'Buddenbrooks'?
A) Hamburg
B) Munich
C) Lübeck
D) Frankfurt
  • 10. Which famous philosopher influenced Thomas Mann's work?
A) Plato
B) Nietzsche
C) Kant
D) Socrates
  • 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) Switzerland
B) Italy
C) United States
D) France
  • 13. What was the occupation of Paul Thomas Mann's father, Johann Heinrich Mann?
A) Novelist
B) Senator and grain merchant
C) Journalist
D) Philanthropist
  • 14. Which novel was inspired by Mann's visit to a sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland?
A) The Magic Mountain
B) Doctor Faustus
C) Buddenbrooks
D) Death in Venice
  • 15. Who was Paul Thomas Mann's wife and what was her family background?
A) Katia Pringsheim, a wealthy secular Jewish industrialist family
B) Golo Mann, a historian
C) Monika Mann, an actress
D) Erika Mann, a novelist
  • 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) The Magic Mountain
B) Doctor Faustus
C) Joseph and His Brothers
D) Death in Venice
  • 18. Which country did Paul Thomas Mann move to for the first time in 1934?
A) Switzerland
B) Czechoslovakia
C) United States
D) France
  • 19. What was the name of Paul Thomas Mann's summer property purchased by his wife in 1908?
A) Bad Tölz
B) Sanary-sur-Mer
C) Arosa
D) Davos
  • 20. Which of Paul Thomas Mann's children were significant German writers?
A) Monika, Elisabeth, and Michael
B) Thomas and Júlia
C) Erika, Klaus, and Golo
D) Heinrich and Katia
  • 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) 1952
C) 1929
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) Nida, Lithuania
C) Sanary-sur-Mer, France
D) Davos, Switzerland
  • 24. Which university did Paul Thomas Mann teach at after moving to the United States?
A) University of Bonn
B) Princeton University
C) Technische Hochschule München
D) Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • 25. What was the name of Paul Thomas Mann's brother who was also a novelist?
A) Golo Mann
B) Klaus Mann
C) Heinrich Mann
D) Michael Mann
  • 26. What was the name of the street where the Manns lived in Princeton, New Jersey?
A) 1550 San Remo Drive
B) Thomas-Mann-Allee
C) 65 Stockton Street
D) Poschinger Str
  • 27. When did Thomas Mann begin his monthly anti-Nazi broadcasts?
A) June 1941
B) December 1945
C) October 1940
D) September 1939
  • 28. What did Thomas Mann criticize about Hitler and his followers in his broadcasts?
A) He praised their military strategies.
B) He condemned them as crude philistines out of touch with European culture.
C) He supported their cultural policies.
D) He ignored their actions entirely.
  • 29. What advantage did Mann mention about the war in one of his speeches?
A) It allowed Germany to expand its territory.
B) It improved relations between Germany and other countries.
C) It kept Hitler from making speeches about culture.
D) It provided economic benefits to Germany.
  • 30. What was Thomas Mann's stance among German expatriates in the U.S. regarding Nazism?
A) He was one of the few publicly active opponents.
B) He remained neutral and silent.
C) He supported Nazi policies.
D) He advocated for collaboration with Nazis.
  • 31. What did Mann say about German collective guilt after World War II?
A) He denied any form of collective guilt.
B) He understood why those who suffered from the Nazi regime would embrace it.
C) He believed only individuals should be held accountable.
D) He thought collective guilt was unjustified.
  • 32. What did Mann express regret about regarding post-war judgement?
A) That it cannot be based on the individual.
B) That it focused too much on cultural aspects.
C) That it was lenient towards Germans.
D) That it ignored economic factors.
  • 33. In what year did Thomas Mann buy his last house in Kilchberg?
A) 1949
B) 1954
C) 1952
D) 1956
  • 34. What was the initial diagnosis of Thomas Mann's condition in 1955?
A) Retroperitoneal hematoma
B) Perforated iliac artery aneurysm
C) Pulmonary embolism
D) Thrombophlebitis
  • 35. What was the unexpected bonus that Blanche Knopf sent Thomas Mann after 'Buddenbrooks' proved successful?
A) An unexpected financial bonus.
B) A trip to Europe.
C) A literary award.
D) A new publishing contract.
  • 36. What year did Thomas Mann attend celebrations for Goethe's 200th birthday?
A) 1955
B) 1938
C) 1949
D) 1924
  • 37. Which author had a particular stylistic influence on Thomas Mann?
A) Theodor Fontane
B) Nikolai Gogol
C) Arthur Schopenhauer
D) Herman Bang
  • 38. Which philosopher provided philosophical inspiration for the narrative of decline in 'Buddenbrooks'?
A) Anders Österling
B) Friedrich Nietzsche
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Arthur Schopenhauer
  • 39. Which Russian author did Thomas Mann believe the Russians had to forget for a bourgeois revolution?
A) Dostoevsky
B) Turgenev
C) Tolstoy
D) Gogol
  • 40. Who did Thomas Mann consider an anarchist and admired for being 'courageously boring'?
A) Leo Tolstoy
B) Nikolai Gogol
C) Friedrich Nietzsche
D) Arthur Schopenhauer
  • 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) 'The Will to Happiness'
C) 'Little Herr Friedemann'
D) 'Death'
  • 42. What is the English translation of Thomas Mann's novella 'Die Betrogene: Erzählung'?
A) The Deceived
B) Betrayer
C) The Black Swan
D) Swan Song
  • 43. Which French artist did Thomas Mann reference in relation to the creative process?
A) Cézanne
B) Renoir
C) Monet
D) Degas
  • 44. Which composer's operas did Thomas Mann love, especially Richard Wagner?
A) Ludwig van Beethoven.
B) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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) Legends of India
C) Indian Legend: The Head Swap
D) The Transposed Heads
  • 46. Which Thomas Mann novella was published in 1940?
A) The Transposed Heads (Die vertauschten Köpfe)
B) Death in Venice
C) Mario and the Magician
D) Disorder and Early Sorrow
  • 47. In which year was 'The Buddenbrooks' translated by Mike Mitchell published?
A) 2026
B) 1999
C) 2023
D) 1988
  • 48. In which year was 'Stories of Three Decades' first published in America?
A) 1936
B) 1970
C) 1963
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) 'Grey Gardens'
D) "Shrimp"
  • 51. Which institution hosts the TMI-Research platform?
A) Thomas Mann House (Los Angeles)
B) Monacensia im Hildebrandhaus
C) Buddenbrookhaus
D) ETH Zurich
  • 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) Tristan
D) Death in Venice
  • 53. Which musical style plays a central role in 'Doctor Faustus'?
A) Romantic music.
B) Neue Musik (New Music).
C) Classical music.
D) Baroque 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) "Little Herr Friedemann"
B) "Tonio Kröger"
C) "Mario and the Magician"
D) "Death in Venice"
  • 55. In which year was Thomas Mann's short story 'The Road to the Churchyard' published?
A) 1899
B) 1903
C) 1900
D) 1896
  • 56. What is the English title of Thomas Mann's play 'Luthers Hochzeit'?
A) Martin Luther and His Wife
B) Luther's Marriage
C) The Wedding of Luther
D) Luther: The Union
  • 57. Who famously recorded Leiber and Stoller's song 'Is That All There Is?'?
A) Diana Ross
B) Etta James
C) Aretha Franklin
D) Peggy Lee
  • 58. Who is the young boy that Aschenbach becomes obsessed with in 'Death in Venice'?
A) Klaus Heuser.
B) Tadzio, a 14-year-old Polish boy.
C) Pribislav Hippe.
D) Hanno Buddenbrook.
  • 59. What is the title of Colm Tóibín's fictionalized biography about Thomas Mann?
A) Tales from Hollywood
B) The Magician
C) Königsallee
D) Fatherland
  • 60. In which novel is the main character criticized for reading The Magic Mountain while visiting a friend in a sanatorium?
A) Andrew Crumey's Mobius Dick
B) Frederic Tuten's Tintin in the New World
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) Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood
B) Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium
C) Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion
D) Andrew Crumey's Mobius Dick
  • 62. Which play by Girish Karnad was based on a theme from Thomas Mann's 'The Transposed Heads'?
A) Königsallee
B) Fatherland
C) Tales from Hollywood
D) Hayavadana
  • 63. Who directed the German version of Girish Karnad's play 'Hayavadana'?
A) Paweł Pawlikowski
B) Vijaya Mehta
C) Julie Taymor
D) Sidney Goldfarb
  • 64. Who directed the famous film adaptation of Mann's novella 'Death in Venice' released in 1971?
A) Luchino Visconti
B) Benjamin Britten
C) Woody Allen
D) Joseph Heller
  • 65. Which story is included in 'Six Early Stories' (1997) but not in 'Death in Venice and Other Tales' (1998)?
A) "A Vision: 'Prose Sketch'"
B) "The Will for Happiness"
C) "Little Herr Friedemann"
D) "Tobias Mindernickel"
  • 66. In which year was Thomas Mann's novella 'Tonio Kröger' published?
A) 1901
B) 1912
C) 1925
D) 1903
  • 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) 1930.
B) 1918.
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) "The Will to Happiness"
C) "A Vision: 'Prose Sketch'"
D) "Fallen"
  • 70. Which film released in 2006 references 'Death in Venice'?
A) 'A Good Year'
B) Daria
C) Annie Hall
D) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
  • 71. In which MTV animated series does a character receive 'Death in Venice' as a gift?
A) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
B) The Habit of Art
C) Daria
D) 'A Good Year'
  • 72. Who translated 'Death in Venice and Other Tales' published in 1998?
A) Jefferson Chase
B) Joachim Neugroschel
C) Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter
D) David Luke
  • 73. Which novel by Joseph Heller references 'Death in Venice'?
A) The Human Stain
B) 'A Good Year'
C) Closing Time (1994)
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) Andrew Crumey's Mobius Dick
B) Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium
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) "Tristan"
B) "Death in Venice"
C) "The Blood of the Walsungs"
D) "Tonio Kröger"
  • 76. Which film directed by Gore Verbinski is inspired by The Magic Mountain?
A) A Cure For Wellness
B) 49th Parallel
C) The Wind Rises
D) Tintin in the New World
  • 77. Which novel by Philip Roth references 'Death in Venice'?
A) Closing Time
B) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
C) The Human Stain (2000)
D) Portuguese Irregular Verbs
  • 78. Which book relates the 'time-experience' of Holocaust prisoners to TB patients in The Magic Mountain?
A) Andrew Crumey's Mobius Dick
B) Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning
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) 1988
B) 2013
C) 2006
D) 1994
  • 80. What is the English title of Thomas Mann's novel 'Königliche Hoheit'?
A) Highness
B) Kingly Majesty
C) Royal Highness
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) 'Death'
B) 'The Dilettante'
C) 'The Clown'
D) 'Luischen'
  • 83. Who portrayed Erika Mann in the film 'Fatherland'?
A) Sandra Hüller
B) Julie Taymor
C) Peggy Lee
D) Vijaya Mehta
  • 84. Which composer created an operatic adaptation of 'Death in Venice' in 1973?
A) Philip Roth
B) Benjamin Britten
C) Rufus Wainwright
D) Alan Bennett
  • 85. In which Woody Allen film is 'Death in Venice' referenced?
A) 'A Good Year'
B) Daria
C) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
D) Annie Hall (1977)
  • 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) Andrew Crumey's Mobius Dick (2004)
C) Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises
D) Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood
  • 87. Which translator's work on 'The Magic Mountain' was published in 2026?
A) Damion Searls
B) Mike Mitchell
C) Ritchie Robertson
D) Simon Pare
  • 88. Which album by Father John Misty contains a song titled 'So I'm Growing Old on Magic Mountain'?
A) Pure Comedy (2017)
B) The Empusium soundtrack
C) "Magic Mountain" by Blonde Redhead
D) P.D.Q. Bach's "Bluegrass Cantata"
  • 89. Which German author did Thomas Mann admire and emulate throughout his life?
A) Schopenhauer
B) Fontane
C) Goethe
D) Dostoevsky
  • 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) Mike Mitchell
B) Ritchie Robertson
C) Simon Pare
D) Damion Searls
  • 92. Which translator was working on a new English version of 'Buddenbrooks' as mentioned by Lesley Chamberlain?
A) Lesley Chamberlain
B) Damion Searls
C) Jefferson Chase
D) Joachim Neugroschel
  • 93. Which story is included in 'Death in Venice and Other Tales' (1998) but not in 'Tonio Kröger and Other Stories' (1970)?
A) "Little Herr Friedemann"
B) "Tobias Mindernickel"
C) "Tristan"
D) "The Joker"
  • 94. Which translator worked on 'New Selected Stories' published in 2023?
A) Joachim Neugroschel
B) Damion Searls
C) Peter Constantine
D) Jefferson Chase
  • 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) 'Disillusionment'
C) 'A Vision (Prose Sketch)'
D) 'Fallen'
  • 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) Gore Verbinski's A Cure For Wellness
D) Frederic Tuten's adaptation
  • 97. Which translator was reported to be working on 'The Magic Mountain' in 2024?
A) Susan Bernofsky
B) Simon Pare
C) Damion Searls
D) Mike Mitchell
  • 98. In which novel does Alexander McCall Smith refer to 'Death in Venice'?
A) 'A Good Year'
B) Half Empty
C) Daria
D) Portuguese Irregular Verbs (1997)
  • 99. In what year did Lesley Chamberlain mention Mann's works coming out of copyright in the US?
A) 1998
B) 2026
C) 2024
D) 2023
  • 100. Which Rufus Wainwright song mentions a character from 'Death in Venice'?
A) 'A Good Year'
B) 'Annie Hall'
C) 'One J at a Time'
D) 'Grey Gardens'
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