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Review Questions
Multiple Choice
Questions 1–3 refer to the following passage:WHERE is the German’s fatherland?
The Prussian land? The Swabian land?
Where Rhine the vine-clad mountain laves?
Where skims the gull the Baltic waves?
Ah, no, no, no!
His fatherland’s not bounded so!
Where is the German’s fatherland?
Bavarian land? or Stygian land?
Where sturdy peasants plough the plain?
Where mountain-sons bright metal gain?
Ah, no, no, no!
His fatherland’s not bounded so!...
Where is the German’s fatherland?
Then name, oh, name the mighty land!
Wherever is heard the German tongue,
And German hymns to God are sung!
This is the land, thy Hermann’s land;
This, German, is thy fatherland.Ernst Moritz Arndt, The German Fatherland, c. 1812- Arndt was a supporter of which nineteenth-century ideology?
A. Conservatism
B. Liberalism
C. Nationalism
D. Anarchism - What is the most likely purpose of the poem?
A. To celebrate the unification of Germany
B. To urge German-speaking people to seek unity
C. To indicate the superiority of Prussian culture
D. To celebrate the beauty of Germany - According to the poem, Arndt believed what about the German kingdoms of Prussia,
Swabia, and Bavaria?
A. They were German nation-states.
B. They were part of a German empire.
C. They were part of the French Empire.
D. They were part of the true Germany.
Short Answer- Briefly define Romanticism and illustrate your definition with TWO examples.
Answers and Explanations- C is correct because the passage indicates that Arndt believed that the true boundaries
of a nation were shared language and culture. A is incorrect because the passage does
not extol the virtues of tradition as a nineteenth-century conservative would. B is incor-
rect because the passage does not extol the virtues of individual liberty as a nineteenth-
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