The Sorrows of Young Werther Quizzes

The Sorrows of Young Werther Quiz 1

By W.C. Miller · Edited by Jordan Berkow · Last reviewed June 14, 2006

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:

A burlesque

A narrative poem

An autobiography

An epistolatory novel
3 Werther was first published in:

1774

1750

1781

1800
4 When was Goethe's revision of Werther published?

1781

Posthumously

1777

1810
5 Which of the following ISN'T true of Goethe's revision of Werther?

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

It is the version widely read today

It is the only version widely available in an English translation

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

The South of France

The 1680s

1774

1771-1772
7 Almost all of Werther's letters are addressed to:

His mother

His beloved, Lotte

His friend, Albert

His friend, Wilhelm
8 Who is Leonora?

Wilhelm's wife, about whom Werther inquires

A statue that Werther considers the ideal feminine form

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

Werther's beloved
9 Werther's family is:

Largely divided by misunderstanding and neglect

Happy but stifling

Almost all deceased

Proud of him
10 Werther compares the peasant women he sees at the well to:

Women depicted in Homer

Women in biblical times

A ballad

Children
11 As the novel begins, what is Werther's opinion of books?

He is very fond of them

He says that he needs none but his Homer

He says he needs none at all

He asks Wilhelm to send his library to his new residence
12 Werther finds the village of Wahlheim:

Stifling

Provincial

Dilapidated

Charming
13 Who are Hans and Philip?

Werther's friends, with whom he attends a ball

Two peasant brothers whom Werther sketches

Lotte's two youngest siblings

Werther's horses
14 What does Werther say he admires in a woman?

Cheerfulness

Beauty

Intellect

Physical strength
15 Bailiff S. is:

Disagreeable to Werther

The father of Hans and Philip

The father of eight children

The father of nine children
16 When Werther first sees Lotte, she is:

Dancing with Albert at a ball

Splashing in a duck pond

Wearing a green dress

Feeding her siblings bread
17 After Lotte, who is the oldest of the siblings?

Louis

Heike

Sophy

Hans
18 Who wrote The Vicar of Wakefield?

Jean-Jaques Rousseau

Goethe

Oliver Goldsmith

Samuel Richardson
19 When Werther is dancing with Lotte he:

Kisses her

Dances flawlessly

Winks at her

Stumbles
20 Werther's first meeting with Lotte is interrupted by:

His jealous partner

A musical recital

Albert

A thunderstorm
21 Who is Klopstock?

A German philosopher

A German poet

A German artist

A German composer
22 What is Werther's attitude toward Lotte's brothers and sisters?

He secretly dislikes them

He thinks that they are selfish with Lotte's time

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 call off her engagement with Albert

To attend a dying woman's deathbed

To bake bread for the parishioners of Wahlheim

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

Friedericke

Herr Schmidt

Lotte

Albert
25 What is Lotte's response to Werther's attack on bad moods?

She praises his judgement and expression

She scolds him for sympathizing too warmly with everything

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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