The Tin Drum Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around The Tin Drum? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. What does the figure of the Black Cook tend to represent in this novel?


Betrayal
Death
Racism
German cuisine. Blood sausage-ugh.
Q. What does woodruff fizz powder do for Maria Truczinski?


Horrifies her
Transports her back to childhood
Makes her crave Dr. Pepper
Gets her sexually aroused
Q. What food does Agnes Matzerath eat so much of that she dies?


Happy Meal with large fries
Steak
Sausage
Fish
Q. By the end of the novel, what place is Oskar reluctant to leave?


Danzig
The asylum
Universal Studio's Harry Potter exhibit
Sister Dorothea's apartment
Q. Oskar wrongfully tends to portray his keeper Bruno as


Dimwitted
Chubby
Shorter than him
Better looking than Robert Downey, Jr.