Lit 2

Question 1

How did “unfinished business” from World War I most contribute to World War II?

Answer 1

Germany rebelled against World War I sanctions.

Question 2

What main advantage did Germany gain from the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?

Answer 2

Reducing military threats

Question 3

Why was Paul Celan imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp?

Answer 3

He was a Romanian Jew

Question 4

What German tradition most influenced Anna Seghers’s work?

Answer 4

fairytales

Question 5

What main function does myth serve in Anna Seghers’s Transit?

Answer 5

Unifying chaos

Question 6

The portrayal of women in Transit is best characterized as

Answer 6

patriarchal

Question 7

True or False: Rebecca West would believe that artists in exile lost their literary identity.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

What expression did Western intellectuals use to describe Soviet Communism after the Moscow show trials?

Answer 8

“the God that failed”

Question 9

For what crime was Walter Janka imprisoned?

Answer 9

Promoting counter-revolutionary ideas

Question 10

What reason did George Orwell cite for the belief that art could flourish under communism?

Answer 10

Artists would no longer feel economic stress.

Question 11

What party did Anna Seghers join after her return to Berlin in 1947?

Answer 11

the German Communist Party