The Sandman Quizzes

The Sandman Quiz 1

1 Who is the first letter of the story from?
Nathanael

Clara

Coppelius

Lothar
2 Who is the first letter of the story to?
Coppelius

Clara

Lothar

Nathanael
3 Who is the second letter of the story from?
Coppelius

Nathanael

Lothar

Clara
4 Who is the second letter of the story to?
Clara

Coppelius

Nathanael

Lothar
5 Who is the third letter of the story from?
Clara

Lothar

Nathanael

Coppelius
6 Who is the third letter of the story to?
Nathanael

Coppelius

Lothar

Clara
7 Who is Franz Moor?
A character in the play "The Robbers"

A character in the story "The Willows"

A character in the play "The Seagull"

A character in the movie "Parent Trap"
8 Who does Nathanael's mother tell him the Sandman is?
A man who steals the eyes of children to feed to his children in the moon

A way of saying one is sleepy

Coppola

Coppelius
9 Who does Nathanael's sister's nursemaid tell him the Sandman is?
Coppola

A man who steals the eyes of children to feed to his children in the moon

A way of saying one is sleepy

Coppelius
10 What sign in the evening let Nathanael know the Sandman was coming on a given night?
He would smell vapors

His father would be silent

He would see Coppelius

He would draw pictures of the Sandman with charcoal
11 How old is Nathanael when he is moved to a different bedroom?
15

10

5

7
12 What happens when Nathanael moves bedrooms?
He meets Clara

He doesn't have to live with his brother

He meets Coppola

He witnesses the Sandman's coming
13 Where does Nathanael hide in his father's room?
Under the bed

Behind a curtain

In a cupboard

In the fireplace
14 Who does Nathanael discover to be his father's late night visitor?
Coppelius

Coppola

Marcos

Clara
15 What does Nathanael's father's visitor do to Nathanael?
Cut open his chest

Burn his eyes in a fire

Steal his eyes

Dislocate his arms and legs
16 What does Coppelius do to upset Nathanael and his siblings?
Sell their toys

Whisper secrets to them

Steal their eyes

Touch their food and wine
17 What happens on Coppelius's final visit to Nathanael's childhood home?
Nathanael's father dies

Coppelius dislocates Nathanael's arms and legs

Coppola and Spalanzani fight over Olimpia

Coppelius reveals that he is the Sandman
18 What is Clara's point of view on Nathanael's story of his childhood?
Nathanael should be with Olimpia

Fear of Coppelius and Coppola comes from within and should be forgotten

Coppelius is not scary

Coppelius must die for Nathanael to move on
19 What does Nathanael NOT say in his second letter to Lothar?
That Coppola is the same as Coppelius

That he is upset Clara read the letter

That he has seen Olimpia for the first time

That Coppola is not the same as Coppelius
20 Why does the story's narrator say he has written the story?
Because he feels so compelled by the story

To get justice for Nathanael

To get justice for Clara

Because Lothar asked him to
21 What does "In medias res" mean?
In the media

In the middle

And so on

For example
22 What art form is Nathanael talented at?
Playing violin

Drawing portraits

Writing opera

Writing stories
23 Which of these does NOT happen in Nathanael's poem for Clara?
Nathanael's father burns his face

Her eyes burn him at their wedding

A black hand reaches into their lives and ruins things

Nathanael falls in a ring of fire
24 What does Nathanael call Clara after she tells him to destroy his poem?
An automaton

A philistine

A cox-comb

A wench
25 What does Lothar decide must be done because of Nathanael's insult to Clara?
Nathanael's mother must be told

Nathanael must leave for university

Nathanael must go to the madhouse

Nathanael and Lothar must duel

After spallanzani throws his big party, Nate visits Olimpia repeatedly, reading her poems and mysticism that had so bored Clara, and Olimpia listens to it all and replies only “Ah, ah!”, which Nathanael interprets as what?

Nathan interprets the "Ah Ha" as the mystic understanding his life.

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Answered by Aslan on 11/28/2021 7:10 PM

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who does Nate see in the lens?

What chapter are you referring to?

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When Nathaniel is with Clara and Lothaire he read the poem he wrote to Clara. What was the poem about that was so upsetting for Clara?

Nathaniel had once been a great storywriter and bonded with Clara in his youth by telling her these stories, but he now begins writing and reciting for her long pieces full of "dismal, obscure, tedious mysticism." He writes one such piece, a poem...

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Answered by jill d #170087 on 11/1/2021 6:46 PM

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The Sandman

by E.T.A. Hoffman

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