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Anna Seghers biography
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1
Her first novel was titled
The Seventh Cross
A Price on His Head
The Companions
Transit
2
Seghers ___________________ on what had enabled Hitler to come to power.
readily evaluated
critically reflected
moodily thought
valiantly wrote
3
Seghers used the sea and rivers to symbolize all but
peace
openness
adventure
freedom
4
She had exile in
France
U.S.
Belgium
Canada
5
She attended University of
Heidelberg
Mainz
Berlin
Belise
6
She earned a doctorate in
Chinese language
art history
Russian literature
sociology
7
Hitler came into power in _______________
January 1933
Syria
a Mazaratti
January 1940
8
This was NOT a major part of her childhood
illness
health spas
the sea
abuse
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an existentialist Christian
Martin Luther
Sofie Pastles
Martin Buber
Soren Kierkegaard
10
This actor played a lead role in a film based on her writing
Charlton Herston
Humphrey Bogart
Spencer Tracy
Dean Clark
11
Austrian communists fought together with ________________ against the clerical fascist regime.
Nazis
Social Democrats
clerks
Italy
12
She was an opponent of
Communism
chauvinism
Judaism
free love
13
This was a striking study on the rise of fascism
The Transit
The Seventh Cross
A Price on His Head
The Rescue
14
Seghers modern style was rooted in the great masters ________________ and ______________ .
Bretch/Lukacs
Bretch/Bloch
Tolstoy/Balzac
Tolstoy/Bloch
15
She joined this association
Writers of the German Uprising
Professional Reprimanding Writers
American Creative Writers
Proletarian Revolutionary Writers
16
To Seghers, commitment always involved
family
marriage
weddings
sacrifice
17
In 1932 she left
the US
Germany
her husband
the Jewish community
18
She believed _______________ was to complete the social mission of Judaism and Christianity.
volunteerism
socialism
communism
democracy
19
She joined the communist party in
1932
1931
1929
1928
20
Seghers was born in
Newark, New Jersey
St. Petersberg, Russia
Berlin, Germany
Mainz, Germany
21
She especially liked
Italy
France
England
Russia
22
Seghers desperately wanted to communicate
love
danger
warning
hope
23
Her stories
Three Women from Haiti
are described as
engaging and energizing
hilarious
Poignant and renewing
dark and melancholy
24
Seghers died in
1983
1972
1956
1965
25
Seghers traveled through a country after a civil war. Which country?
Austria
Portugal
France
Russia
26
Seghers' blind spot due to communist ideology regarded
the plight of the jews
Nazis
other Germans
fascism