Q 01/05
A) Thomas Mann
B) Hermann Hesse
C) Franz Kafka
D) Robert Musil
Answer · why
The Prague-born writer published it in 1915; it is the longest of the stories he considered finished and released in his lifetime.
Q 02/05
A) Karl Rossmann
B) Josef K.
C) Georg Bendemann
D) Gregor Samsa
Answer · why
His sister is Grete; the similarity of their names has been read as a clue that they form two halves of one personality.
Q 03/05
A) Das Ungeziefer
B) Die Verwandlung
C) Die Metamorphose
D) Der Käfer
Answer · why
Kafka had read and even translated Ovid as a schoolboy, yet chose the everyday word for transformation rather than 'Metamorphose'.
Q 04/05
A) 1905
B) 1924
C) 1915
D) 1933
Answer · why
It appeared in the October issue of the journal Die weißen Blätter, then as a book that December.
Q 05/05
A) Insurance assessor
B) Schoolteacher
C) Bank clerk
D) Travelling salesman
Answer · why
He sold cloth, hated the constant travel and stayed only to pay off his bankrupt father's debts.
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