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Take our free Tyll quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What is Nele's talent? (from Lord of the Air)

Juggling.

Baking.

Singing.

Levitation.

2.

What is odd about the music that so engages Elizabeth? (from Westphalia)

It is a Scottish bagpipe air and reminds her of her youth in England.

The main melody is a folk tune that reminds her of her dead son.

It is poorly played and she misses the accomplished musicians back in England.

It harmonizes melodies that are not similar.

3.

What is the plot of the little play the traveling entertainers perform? (from Shoes)

The doomed love between two young people.

The townspeople are not sure but they think it has something to do with the war.

The Trojan Horse story from Antiquity, although the townspeople do not understand the story.

The Biblical story of Adam and Eve.

4.

What experience first upsets Martin? (from Zusmarshausen)

Seeing angels in the sky during a heavy thunderstorm.

Glimpsing the burned corpse of a village milk maid.

Witnessing a deserter shot by a firing squad.

Seeing a goose shot dead.

5.

What rare commodity does Athanasius Kircher need for his cure for the plague? (from The Great Art of Light and Shadow)

Rain water.

The pus from a sore of a plague patient.

Donkey urine.

The blood of a dragon.

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