E. T. A. Hoffmann quiz
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Which animals fight the Nutcracker in Hoffmann's tale?
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Whose 1919 essay on the uncanny discusses The Sandman?
Answer: Sigmund Freud
Why: Freud was building on psychiatrist Ernst Jentsch, whose 1906 essay on the uncanny had already pointed to Hoffmann's stories.
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What is René Cardillac's trade in Mademoiselle de Scudéri?
Answer: Goldsmith
Why: Paris's most admired goldsmith is secretly the one taking back his own jewellery from the people who bought it.
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Which instruments does Councillor Krespel cut open?
Answer: Old violins
Why: Krespel also had his house walls built with no doors or windows, then had the openings broken out afterwards.
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What is Olimpia in The Sandman?
Answer: A mechanical doll
Why: Professor Spalanzani had passed her off as his daughter, and he has to leave the university once the trick comes out.
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Which composer named a piano cycle after Hoffmann's Kreisler?
Answer: Robert Schumann
Why: Schumann wrote Kreisleriana in 1838 and dedicated it to Frédéric Chopin.
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Why was Hoffmann sent to Płock in 1802?
Answer: For his caricatures
Why: The move came with a promotion, yet it sent Hoffmann to Płock, a town of only about 3,000 people.
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