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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What best describes the relationship between Tyll and Nele? (from Lord of the Air)

Nele is imaginary, a fiction Tyll creates to keep him from being lonely.

Despite their young age, they are lovers.

Friends who find comfort in each other's company.

They barely know each other but end up running away together with a traveling troupe.

2.

Why is Friedrich called the Winter King? (from Kings in Winter)

Bohemia is known for its savage winters.

He has a poetic fondness for snow.

He lost his first born son the first winter of the child's life.

He is on the throne of Bohemia for barely a month.

3.

What does young Tyll practice every day at the expense of doing his chores? (from Lord of the Air)

Singing, particularly Lutheran hymns, which drives his Catholic father nuts.

Making a piglet disappear.

Juggling different size rocks.

Walking across a rope suspended between trees.

4.

How does Friedrich die? (from Kings in Winter)

Drunk, he passes out face down in a snow drift and is smothered.

In a freak boating accident.

Gloriously, on the battlefield, at least that's what the court messenger says.

From the plague.

5.

What experience first upsets Martin? (from Zusmarshausen)

Glimpsing the burned corpse of a village milk maid.

Witnessing a deserter shot by a firing squad.

Seeing angels in the sky during a heavy thunderstorm.

Seeing a goose shot dead.

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