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Stefan Zweig quiz

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Question 1 of 3Easy

Which Wes Anderson film credits Zweig as its inspiration?

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  1. 1 Easy

    What composer's writing desk did Zweig own?

    Answer: Beethoven

    Why: Besides the desk, his Beethoven relics included the composer's violin and a lock of his hair.

  2. 2 Medium

    Who raises the orphan Czentovic in The Royal Game?

    Answer: A priest

    Why: His father had been a poor boatman on the Danube, and the priest took the boy in at twelve after his father died.

  3. 3 Hard

    What did Zweig say the world before 1914 was a golden age of?

    Answer: security

    Why: The memoir's opening chapter carries the same idea in its title, The World of Security.

  4. 4 Easy

    Whose 1917 sealed train ride does Zweig retell?

    Answer: Lenin

    Why: The journey from his Swiss exile ended at Petrograd's Finland Station on 16 April 1917.

  5. 5 Medium

    Which composer wrote an opera to a Zweig libretto?

    Answer: Richard Strauss

    Why: Nazi authorities banned the opera, The Silent Woman, after only three performances in 1935.

  6. 6 Hard

    Which French thinker was Zweig's doctoral thesis about?

    Answer: Hippolyte Taine

    Why: Under Nazi race laws the University of Vienna revoked his doctorate in 1941, and it was only restored in 2003.

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