Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Death in Venice? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Who says, "For beauty, Phaedrus, mark thou well, beauty and beauty alone is at once divine and visible"?
Aschenbach
Tadzio
Socrates
The stranger god
Q. "It was the smile of Narcissus bending over the water mirror, the deep protracted smile with which he stretched out his arms to the reflection of his own beauty […]." Who is the narrator talking about here?
Elephants
Aschenbach
Phaedrus
Tadzio
Q. "His steps followed the dictates of the demon whose delight it is to trample human reason and dignity underfoot." Who is the narrator talking about here?
Satan
Aschenbach
The stranger god
Aschenbach's barber
Q. Who uses the phrase "an intellectual, adolescent conception of manliness"?
Aschenbach's literary critic
The narrator
Tadzio
Thomas Mann
Q. Who says, "Observing all this and much more of a like nature, one might well wonder whether the only possible heroism was the heroism of the weak"?
Thomas Mann
Aschenbach
Aschenbach's friend
The narrator