- 1. On what date did Prussia declare war against France?
A) 25 March
B) 16 March
C) 8 May
D) 4 June
- 2. Whom did Hoffmann meet by surprise on 26 March?
A) Hippel
B) His wife
C) A soldier
D) Seconda
- 3. How long had it been since Hoffmann last saw Hippel?
A) Five years
B) Twelve years
C) Nine years
D) Two years
- 4. What happened to the bridges on 8 May?
A) They were reinforced
B) They were destroyed
C) They were closed to the public
D) They were captured
- 5. What event occurred on 20 May during the journey to Leipzig?
A) A confrontation with soldiers
B) The loss of luggage
C) A coach accident
D) A robbery
- 6. Who was injured in the coach accident involving Hoffmann?
A) Seconda
B) His wife
C) Hippel
D) His daughter
- 7. When did Hoffmann begin working with Seconda's orchestra?
A) 25 March
B) 23 May
C) 4 June
D) 22 August
- 8. What began on 4 June that allowed the company to return to Dresden?
A) A military parade
B) A holiday
C) An armistice
D) A peace treaty
- 9. Why did the family relocate on 22 August?
A) The end of the armistice
B) To escape the plague
C) Financial problems
D) Seconda ordered it
- 10. What is the title of the work where Hoffmann describes the battlefield of Dresden?
A) War in Leipzig
B) The Battle of Dresden
C) Memoirs of a Jurist
D) Vision auf dem Schlachtfeld bei Dresden
- 11. When did the town of Dresden surrender?
A) 11 November
B) 22 August
C) 4 June
D) 9 December
- 12. On what date did the company travel to Leipzig after the surrender of Dresden?
A) 26 February
B) 9 December
C) 11 November
D) 25 February
- 13. When did Hoffmann quarrel with Seconda?
A) 26 February
B) 11 November
C) 25 February
D) 22 August
- 14. How long was the notice Hoffmann was given by Seconda?
A) Six months
B) One month
C) Twelve weeks
D) Nine weeks
- 15. What career did Hoffmann return to after being visited by Hippel in July?
A) Orchestra musician
B) Jurist
C) Soldier
D) Diplomat
- 16. Which city did Hoffmann consider the site of the happiest years of his life?
A) Bamberg
B) Warsaw
C) Dresden
D) Berlin
- 17. Who was Hoffmann's future biographer and neighbour in Warsaw?
A) Adelbert von Chamisso
B) August Wilhelm Schlegel
C) Julius Eduard Itzig
D) Zacharias Werner
- 18. To what name did Julius Eduard Itzig change his name after his baptism?
A) Hitzig
B) Kreisler
C) Amadeus
D) Nordstern
- 19. Which literary group was Itzig a member of?
A) Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung
B) The Bamberg Circle
C) Nordstern
D) The Fourth Coalition
- 20. Which event caused the Prussian bureaucrats in Warsaw to lose their jobs in 1806?
A) A severe illness
B) The death of his daughter
C) The closing of the Bamberg Theatre
D) Napoleon's troops captured Warsaw
- 21. To which city did Hoffmann's wife and daughter return in 1807?
A) Posen
B) Würzburg
C) Leipzig
D) Vienna
- 22. What caused a six-month delay in Hoffmann's relocation from Warsaw?
A) The death of his wife
B) Lack of money
C) Severe illness
D) Refusal to swear allegiance
- 23. In what year did Hoffmann arrive in Berlin after leaving Warsaw?
A) 1806
B) 1808
C) 1809
D) 1807
- 24. What musical work did Hoffmann compose during his difficult time in occupied Berlin?
A) Ritter Gluck
B) The Beethoven Symphonies
C) Lebensansichten des Katers Murr
D) Six Canticles
- 25. In what city did Hoffmann begin his job as theatre manager in 1808?
A) Leipzig
B) Warsaw
C) Bamberg
D) Dresden
- 26. Who was the director of the Bamberg theatre who left for Würzburg shortly after Hoffmann's arrival?
A) David Ferdinand Koreff
B) Heinrich Cuno
C) Joseph Seconda
D) Count Soden
- 27. Hoffmann wrote well-received articles about which composer for the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung?
A) Bach
B) Beethoven
C) Gluck
D) Mozart
- 28. Which character made his first appearance in the pages of the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung?
A) Kater Murr
B) Amadeus
C) Ritter Gluck
D) Johannes Kreisler
- 29. What was the title of the story that marked Hoffmann's breakthrough in 1809?
A) Ritter Gluck
B) Lebensansichten des Katers Murr
C) Six Canticles
D) The North Star
- 30. Who invented the term Doppelgänger, influencing Hoffmann's work?
A) Ludwig Tieck
B) Jean Paul
C) Carlo Gozzi
D) Novalis
- 31. What initials appear on Hoffmann's gravestone?
A) E. T. A.
B) J. E. H.
C) E. T. H.
D) E. T. W.
- 32. What was the name of the young singing student Hoffmann fell in love with?
A) Rahel Levin
B) Julia Marc
C) Sophie Tieck
D) Cäcilia
- 33. Who offered Hoffmann a position as musical director in Dresden?
A) Joseph Seconda
B) Julius Hitzig
C) Heinrich Cuno
D) Count Soden
- 34. Who was Hoffmann's employer in Glogau starting in 1796?
A) Kotzebue
B) Johann Ludwig Doerffer
C) Iffland
D) Hippol
- 35. Which artists' work particularly amazed Hoffmann in the Dresden gallery?
A) Correggio and Raphael
B) Bach and Beethoven
C) Da Vinci and Michelangelo
D) Rembrandt and Rubens
- 36. In what year did Hoffmann move to Berlin for the first time?
A) 1798
B) 1804
C) 1800
D) 1796
- 37. What was the name of the operetta Hoffmann sent to Queen Luise of Prussia?
A) Der Preis
B) Die Posen
C) Die Maske
D) Die Freimüthige
- 38. Who was the director of the Royal Theatre that Hoffmann was advised to contact?
A) Johann Ludwig Doerffer
B) Hippol
C) Kotzebue
D) Iffland
- 39. What kind of behavior did Hoffmann exhibit after moving to the Prussian provinces in 1800?
A) Religious
B) Dissolute
C) Academic
D) Disciplined
- 40. To which city was Hoffmann 'promoted' after the caricature incident?
A) Płock
B) Dresden
C) Glogau
D) Thorn
- 41. What was Hoffmann's wife's name?
A) Mischa
B) Dora Hatt
C) Minna Doerffer
D) Queen Luise
- 42. What date did Hoffmann begin his diary?
A) 1 August 1802
B) 1 January 1804
C) 1 June 1800
D) 1 October 1803
- 43. What was the title of the play Hoffmann entered into the competition in Die Freimüthige?
A) Die Maske
B) Der Preis
C) Die Freimüthige
D) Płock
- 44. What was the prize offered for the competition in Die Freimüthige?
A) A position at the Royal Theatre
B) 100 Friedrichs d'or
C) 50 Friedrichs d'or
D) A musical residency
- 45. Which family member died during Hoffmann's sad period in the provinces?
A) His wife Mischa
B) His sister Minna
C) Uncle J. L. Hoffmann
D) His friend Hippel
- 46. Which city did Hoffmann never return to after 1804?
A) Berlin
B) Königsberg
C) Posen
D) Płock
- 47. What was E. T. A. Hoffmann's original middle name?
A) Wilhelm
B) Amadeus
C) Theodor
D) Ludwig
- 48. Which genre is E. T. A. Hoffmann's 'The Sandman' considered a pioneering work of?
A) Horror fiction
B) Satire
C) Science fiction
D) Historical fiction
- 49. What is the novella 'Mademoiselle de Scuderi' regarded as an early example of?
A) Travel literature
B) Romance fiction
C) Crime fiction
D) Political allegory
- 50. Which Tchaikovsky ballet is based on a novella by Hoffmann?
A) Swan Lake
B) The Nutcracker
C) Coppélia
D) Sleeping Beauty
- 51. Which composer wrote 'Kreisleriana' based on a character by Hoffmann?
A) Schiller
B) Schumann
C) Offenbach
D) Tchaikovsky
- 52. What profession did Hoffmann's father practice?
A) Barrister
B) Doctor
C) Merchant
D) Architect
- 53. What nickname did Hoffmann give his uncle Otto Wilhelm Doerffer?
A) Tante Füßchen
B) O Weh
C) Onkel Ludwig
D) Der Geheimnisvolle
- 54. What school did Hoffmann attend between 1781 and 1792?
A) University of Königsberg
B) Burgschule
C) Royal Academy
D) Lutheran Seminary
- 55. Which philosopher's lectures did Hoffmann attend in 1792?
A) Immanuel Kant
B) Friedrich Schiller
C) Jonathan Swift
D) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- 56. In 1794, to whom did Hoffmann give music lessons?
A) Charlotte Wilhelmine Doerffer
B) Johanna Sophie Doerffer
C) Dora Hatt
D) Lovisa Albertina Doerffer
- 57. In what year did Hoffmann return to Berlin?
A) 1819
B) 1814
C) 1822
D) 1807
- 58. What was the name of Hoffmann's opera that had a successful run at the Berlin Theatre?
A) Undine
B) Meister Floh
C) Cardillac
D) Kreisleriana
- 59. Who was the Commissioner that Hoffmann caricatured in his story 'Meister Floh'?
A) Frederick William III
B) Metternich
C) Kamptz
D) Jahn
- 60. What was the official cause of Hoffmann's death?
A) Respiratory paralysis
B) Pneumonia
C) Stroke
D) Heart attack
- 61. At what age did Hoffmann die?
A) 50
B) 46
C) 42
D) 38
- 62. Which movement is Hoffmann considered a best-known representative of?
A) Realism
B) Classicists
C) German Romanticism
D) Naturalism
- 63. Which author was influenced by Hoffmann?
A) Jane Austen
B) Leo Tolstoy
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Mark Twain
- 64. Which work by Hoffmann is sometimes cited as the first detective story?
A) The Nutcracker
B) Das Fräulein von Scuderi
C) Tomcat Murr
D) Meister Floh
- 65. Who characterized Hoffmann's works as Menippean Satire?
A) Friedrich Schnapp
B) Paul Hindemith
C) Charles Rosen
D) Mikhail Bakhtin
- 66. In the novel about Tomcat Murr, what is the character Kreisler's profession?
A) Painter
B) Musician
C) Doctor
D) Lawyer
- 67. Which critic claimed E. T. A. Hoffmann laid the groundwork for enduring science fiction themes?
A) Algis Budrys
B) Martin Willis
C) E. F. Bleiler
D) Callot
- 68. According to Martin Willis, what context is Hoffmann's work contemporary with?
A) The Romantic Period
B) The Enlightenment
C) The Industrial Revolution
D) Frankenstein
- 69. Which of these short stories by Hoffmann is explicitly mentioned as an example of his interest in machine culture?
A) The Golden Pot
B) Ritter Gluck
C) Don Juan
D) Automata
- 70. What is the publication year of 'The Sandman' according to the text?
A) 1814
B) 1816
C) 1818
D) 1819
- 71. In what year was 'Die Elixiere des Teufels' published?
A) 1819
B) 1815
C) 1814
D) 1817
- 72. Which story collection was published in 1814?
A) Nachtstücke
B) Fantasiestücke in Callots Manier
C) Die Serapionsbrüder
D) Letzte Erzählungen
- 73. Which work was published in 1822?
A) Die Geheimnisse
B) Lebensansichten des Katers Murr
C) Prinzessin Brambilla
D) Meister Floh
- 74. What was the publication year of 'Prinzessin Brambilla'?
A) 1820
B) 1819
C) 1822
D) 1821
- 75. What is the publication year of 'Seltsame Leiden eines Theater-Direktors'?
A) 1819
B) 1814
C) 1820
D) 1822
- 76. In what year was the Mass in D minor composed?
A) 1809
B) 1805
C) 1807
D) 1811
- 77. Who wrote the libretto for the Singspiel 'Die lustigen Musikanten'?
A) Clemens Brentano
B) Joseph von Seyfried
C) Julius von Soden
D) E. T. A. Hoffmann
- 78. Which author included E. T. A. Hoffmann as a character named 'ETAH' in their novel?
A) Robertson Davies
B) Alexandre Dumas
C) Sigmund Freud
D) Ingmar Bergman
- 79. Sigmund Freud provided a psychoanalytic analysis of which Hoffmann story?
A) The Sandman
B) Klein Zaches
C) Undine
D) Die Maske
- 80. Which German classical metal band is named after a Hoffmann character?
A) Zinnober
B) Arnulph Vollweiler
C) Julius Sabinus
D) Coppelius
- 81. What happened to the Russian show 'Puppets' after portraying Putin as Klein Zaches?
A) It was cancelled
B) It was rebranded
C) It won an award
D) It was extended
- 82. What was the pseudonym used by Hoffmann for his lost 1814 work?
A) Arnulph Vollweiler
B) Clemens Brentano
C) Julius von Soden
D) Joseph von Seyfried
- 83. In what year was the Miserere in B Minor composed?
A) 1809
B) 1805
C) 1807
D) 1812
- 84. Which instrument is featured in the 'Harp Quintet in C minor' (1807)?
A) Cello
B) Violin
C) Harp
D) Piano
- 85. The 'Tre Canzonette italiane' was composed in which year?
A) 1808
B) 1807
C) 1811
D) 1812
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