Reference no: EM131055670
GERMAN Multiple Choice:
1. Charlemagne was crowned Roman emperor in:
a) 800 B.C. b) 800 A.D. c) 476 A.D d) 1000 A.D.
2. The dates for the Franco-Prussian War are:
a) 1770-71 b) 1670-1671 c) 1870-71 d) 1890-91
3. This bird symbolized freedom for the Goths
a) Goose b) eagle c) raven d) sparrow
4) The Visigoths conquered Rome in:
a) 101 BC b) 476 AD c) 410 AD
5) Geiseric was king of this Germanic tribe:
a) Vandals b) Visigoths c) Franks d) Saxons
6) The Romans suffered a great defeat by the Cheruskans in:
7) a) 90 BC b) 90AD c) 9 BC d) 9 AD
8) Which one of these are not a Germanic people?
a) Lombards b) Slays c) Saxons d) Burgundians
9) Napoleon was defeated in 1815 by Wellington and troops fron
a) Saxony b) Prussia c) Russia
10) Which of these operas was written by Mozart?
a) Don Giovanni b) Aida c) Fidello
11) This tribe migrated all the way to Carthage:
a) Saxons b) Huns c) Vandals d) Visigoths
II. TRUE/FALSE
1. Gothic Bishop Wulfila was a Roman Catholic who believed in the Trinity.
2. Prussian soldiers helped defeat Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.
3. Fredrick the Great of Prussia was a tyrannical ruler.
4. The Weimar Republic after WWI was marked by economic instability.
5. The Wilhelm Gustle was named after the Swiss Nazi leader.
6. The German Empire was established after the Franco-Prussian War.
7. In 1870 Bismarck engineered a war with France.
8. Germany declared war on the United States in 1917.
9. The printing press was invented in the 19th century.
10. The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin commemorates all Nazi victims.
11. France has a Germanic past.
12. Goethe despised Newton's ideas on colors and developed his own theory.
13. Great Britain declared war on Germany in 1914 and 1939.
14. Goethe died in 1832.
15. After the Franco-Prussian War, Germany acquired colonies in Africa.
16. The Ems telegram dates to the summer of 1870.
17. The Zimmermann telegram dates to the year 1917.
18. Beethoven had a loving relationship with both of his parents.
19. Anne Frank was gassed at Auschwitz.
20. The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff is the greatest maritime disaster ever.