1. “When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is no such separation: “natural” qualities and those called truly “human” are inseparably grown together. Man, in his highest and noblest capacities, is wholly nature and embodies its uncanny dual character. Those of his abilities which are terrifying and considered inhuman may even be the fertile soil out of which alone all humanity can grow in impulse, deed, and work.”
Answer: B) Friedrich Nietzsche
2. Which factors contributed to the downfall of the Weimar Republic?
Answer: D) All of the above.
3. What event provided the justification for Hitler to declare a state of emergency?
Answer: B) The Reichstag fire
4. “Whoever wants to engage in politics at all, and especially in politics as a vocation, has to realize these ethical paradoxes. He must know that he is responsible for what he may become of himself under the impact of these paradoxes. I repeat, he lets himself in for the diabolic forces lurking in all violence.”
Answer: C) Max Weber
5. What is the significance of the name Spartacus?
Answer: C) The leader of a slave revolt against the Romans
6. What event constituted the “Great Betrayal” in the eyes of social democrats like Rosa Luxemburg?
Answer: A) The voting of war credits by the Social Democratic Party in 1914
7. “This examination would not be complete, however, if it did not touch upon a third and colder order that bestows its unique character on our time of change. The growing objectification of our life appears most distinctly in technology, this great mirror, which is sealed off in a unique way from the grip of pain. Technology is our uniform. Yet we are too deeply immersed in this process to comprehend it to its full extent.”
Answer: C) Ernst Junger
8. “Business thrives in the ruins. Cities become piles of ruins; villages become cemeteries; countries, deserts; populations are beggared; churches, horse stalls. International law, treaties and alliances, the most sacred words and the highest authority have been torn in shreds. Every sovereign “by the grace of God” is called a rogue and lying scoundrel by his cousin on the other side. Every diplomat is a cunning rascal to his colleagues in the other party. Every government sees every other as dooming its own people and worthy only of universal contempt. There are food riots in Venice, in Lisbon, Moscow, Singapore. There is plague in Russia, and misery and despair everywhere.”
Answer: B) Rosa Luxemburg
9. What is the name of the professor in The Blue Angel?
Answer: A) Rath
10. What is the “twist ending” at the end of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari?
Answer: B) Francis is a patient at a mental institution
11. “This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what had been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them.”
Answer: A) Walter Benjamin
12. "Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be. This unique existence of the work of art determined the history to which it was subject throughout the time of its existence"
Answer: A) Walter Benjamin
13. Which period of time was relatively stable during the Weimar era?
Answer: B.) 1924-1929
14. “He had started to suspect that his venerable father and his other teachers, that the wise Brahmans had already revealed to him the most and best of their wisdom, that they had already filled his expecting vessel with their richness, and the vessel was not full, the spirit was not content, the soul was not calm, the heart was not satisfied. The ablutions were good, but they were water, they did not wash off the sin, they did not heal the spirit's thirst, they did not relieve the fear in his heart. The sacrifices and the invocation of the gods were excellent—but was that all?”
Answer: A) Herman Hesse
15. After the Spartacus Uprising failed many of the former members formed which political party?
Answer: D) KPD
16. What day and year did World War I end?
Answer: C) November 11th, 1918
17. In which book does Nietzsche discuss the change in values between the Romans and the Christians?
Answer: D) On the Genealogy of Morality
18. What does “dada” mean?
Answer: C) A nonsense word with no meaning
19. “In war, when shells fly past our bodies at high speeds, we sense clearly that no level of intelligence, virtue, or fortitude is strong enough to deflect them, not even by a hair. To the extent this threat increases, doubt concerning the validity of our values forces itself upon us. The mind tends toward a catastrophic interpretation of things wherever it sees everything called into question.”
Answer: D) Ernst Junger
20. What is Fridolin’s occupation in Dream Story?
Answer: B) Doctor
21. Where did Max Weber deliver his address “Politics as a Vocation?
Answer: B) Munich
22. What was one of the immediate goals of the Spartacus group?
Answer: C) To increase the power of soldier's and worker's councils over military bases and factories.
23. “The honor of the civil servant is vested in his ability to execute conscientiously the order of the superior authorities, exactly as if the order agreed with his own conviction. This holds even if the order appears wrong to him and if, despite the civil servant’s remonstrances, the authority insists on the order. Without this moral discipline and self-denial, in the highest sense, the whole apparatus would fall to pieces. The honor of the political leader, of the leading statesman, however, lies precisely in an exclusive personal responsibility for what he does, a responsibility he cannot and must not reject or transfer. It is in the nature of officials of high moral standing to be poor politicians, and above all, in the political sense of the word, to be irresponsible politicians.”
Answer: A) Max Weber
24. Which of the following large manufacturers were known to have used slave labor from Nazi concentration camps?
Answer: D) All of the above
25. What did BMW originally manufacture when it was first created?
Answer: C) air planes
26. “There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. And just as such a document is not free of barbarism, barbarism taints also the manner in which it was transmitted from one to another. A historical materialist therefore dissociates himself from it as far as possible. He regards it as his task to brush history against the grain.”
Answer: D) Walter Benjamin
