The Sandman Quizzes

The Sandman Quiz 1

By Madeline Cohen · Edited by Aaron Suduiko · Last reviewed July 23, 2015

1 Who is the first letter of the story from?

Coppelius

Lothar

Nathanael

Clara
2 Who is the first letter of the story to?

Clara

Coppelius

Nathanael

Lothar
3 Who is the second letter of the story from?

Lothar

Coppelius

Clara

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

Lothar

Coppelius

Clara

Nathanael
5 Who is the third letter of the story from?

Coppelius

Clara

Lothar

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

Coppelius

Lothar

Nathanael

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?

Coppelius

Coppola

A way of saying one is sleepy

A man who steals the eyes of children to feed to his children in the moon
9 Who does Nathanael's sister's nursemaid tell him the Sandman is?

A way of saying one is sleepy

Coppola

Coppelius

A man who steals the eyes of children to feed to his children in the moon
10 What sign in the evening let Nathanael know the Sandman was coming on a given night?

His father would be silent

He would smell vapors

He would draw pictures of the Sandman with charcoal

He would see Coppelius
11 How old is Nathanael when he is moved to a different bedroom?

5

10

7

15
12 What happens when Nathanael moves bedrooms?

He doesn't have to live with his brother

He witnesses the Sandman's coming

He meets Coppola

He meets Clara
13 Where does Nathanael hide in his father's room?

In the fireplace

Under the bed

Behind a curtain

In a cupboard
14 Who does Nathanael discover to be his father's late night visitor?

Coppola

Marcos

Clara

Coppelius
15 What does Nathanael's father's visitor do to Nathanael?

Steal his eyes

Cut open his chest

Burn his eyes in a fire

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

Touch their food and wine

Whisper secrets to them

Sell their toys

Steal their eyes
17 What happens on Coppelius's final visit to Nathanael's childhood home?

Coppelius dislocates Nathanael's arms and legs

Coppelius reveals that he is the Sandman

Coppola and Spalanzani fight over Olimpia

Nathanael's father dies
18 What is Clara's point of view on Nathanael's story of his childhood?

Coppelius must die for Nathanael to move on

Nathanael should be with Olimpia

Coppelius is not scary

Fear of Coppelius and Coppola comes from within and should be forgotten
19 What does Nathanael NOT say in his second letter to Lothar?

That Coppola is not the same as Coppelius

That he is upset Clara read the letter

That he has seen Olimpia for the first time

That Coppola is the same as Coppelius
20 Why does the story's narrator say he has written the story?

To get justice for Nathanael

Because Lothar asked him to

To get justice for Clara

Because he feels so compelled by the story
21 What does "In medias res" mean?

And so on

For example

In the media

In the middle
22 What art form is Nathanael talented at?

Playing violin

Writing stories

Writing opera

Drawing portraits
23 Which of these does NOT happen in Nathanael's poem for Clara?

A black hand reaches into their lives and ruins things

Nathanael falls in a ring of fire

Her eyes burn him at their wedding

Nathanael's father burns his face
24 What does Nathanael call Clara after she tells him to destroy his poem?

A cox-comb

A philistine

An automaton

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

Nathanael must go to the madhouse

Nathanael must leave for university

Nathanael's mother must be told

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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by E.T.A. Hoffman

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