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  1. Who is regarded as the national poet of Slovenia?
  2. Which poem by Prešeren provides the words of the Slovenian national anthem?
  3. Who printed the first books in the Slovenian language in 1550?
  4. How many grammatical cases does Slovenian have?
  5. What is the dual number in Slovenian grammar?
  6. Who wrote the work 'Hlapec Jernej in njegova pravica' ('Bailiff Yerney and His Rights')?
  7. Who wrote the tale 'Martin Krpan z Vrha' (1858)?
  8. How many letters does the standard Slovenian alphabet have?
  9. What is a play, such as a drama or a comedy, written for?
  10. What is a quatrain?
  11. What is a refrain in a poem or song?
  12. Which writer published the first Slovenian novel, 'Deseti brat' ('The Tenth Brother'), in 1866?
  13. Who translated the whole Bible into Slovenian in 1584?
  14. Which poem by Prešeren tells of the conversion of the Slovenes to Christianity and of the hero Črtomir?
  15. Which group of writers is linked with the Slovenian modernism (Slovenska moderna) of about 1900?
  16. Which poet from the Karst region is known for his constructivist poems called 'Integrali' ('Integrals') and who died aged 22?
  17. Which writer, whose real name was Lovro Kuhar, wrote about the farm life in Carinthia, for example in 'Samorastniki'?
  18. Which sentence contains a metaphor?
  19. What is irony?
  20. Who is the antagonist of a story?
  21. What is enjambment in poetry?
  22. What is a rhetorical question?
  23. Which two minority languages are co-official with Slovenian in the ethnically mixed areas of Slovenia?
  24. To which group of languages does Slovenian belong?
  25. In 'Martin Krpan', what task does the hero take on at the emperor's court in Vienna?
  26. What name is given to a poem of fourteen lines with a fixed rhyme scheme, which Prešeren used in his 'Wreath of Sonnets'?
  27. In Prešeren's 'Wreath of Sonnets', which phrase do the first letters of the lines of the last sonnet (the Magistrale) spell?
  28. Which message sums up the seventh stanza of 'Zdravljica', which is the national anthem?
  29. Which sentence is in the dual form?
  30. What do the 19th-century Slovenian literature and press movements mainly try to achieve?
  31. Read: 'The old man's hands were roots, gripping the earth.' Which device is used and what does it suggest?
  32. How do Romanticism and Realism differ in Slovenian literature of the 19th century?
  33. Why were the works of Trubar and Dalmatin important for the Slovenian language?
  34. In Cankar's 'Hlapec Jernej', what does the hero's search for justice mainly criticise?
  35. Which writer from Trieste wrote the novel 'Nekropola' ('Necropolis'), based on his experience in a Nazi concentration camp?
  36. What name is given to the most important Slovenian award for cultural achievement, named after the national poet?
  37. Which town was Primož Trubar working in when his first Slovenian books Catechismus and Abecedarium were printed in 1550?
  38. Which scholar published the first grammar of the Slovenian language, titled Arcticae horulae succisivae, in 1584?
  39. Which dramatic work by Anton Tomaž Linhart, staged in 1789, is recognized as the first secular comedy written in Slovenian?
  40. Which patriotic poem by Valentin Vodnik, published in 1795, called upon Slovenes to cultivate their land and take pride in their work?
  41. How many individual sonnets make up France Prešeren's poetic cycle Sonetni venec?
  42. To which young woman did France Prešeren dedicate Sonetni venec through the acrostic formed by the Magistrale sonnet?
  43. Which epic poem by France Prešeren depicts the final armed resistance of pagan Slovenes led by Črtomir near Lake Bohinj?
  44. In Josip Jurčič's novel Deseti brat, which educated young man arrives at the estate of Slemenice to serve as a private tutor?
  45. Which realistic novella by Janko Kersnik depicts the petty social rivalries and bureaucratic ambitions of provincial town officials?
  46. Which lyrical novella by Ivan Tavčar portrays the romance between the Ljubljana lawyer Janez and the peasant girl Meta in the Poljane Valley?
  47. Which drama by Ivan Cankar centers on the ruthless and corrupt village entrepreneur Jakov Kantor, who stops at nothing to secure local power?
  48. Which short story collection by Ivan Cankar contains nostalgic autobiographical vignettes about his childhood in Vrhnika, including Pehar suhih hrušk?
  49. Which popular collection of children's poetry was published by Oton Župančič in 1915, featuring playful rhymes like Mehurčki?
  50. Which Slovenian grammatical case answers the question 'O kom ali o čem?' ('About whom or about what?')?
  51. Which Slovenian grammatical case answers the question 'S kom ali s čim?' ('With whom or with what?')?
  52. Which pronoun in standard Slovenian grammar represents the masculine and mixed-gender first-person dual form ('the two of us')?
  53. Which essay by Fran Levstik, published in 1858, set out a comprehensive literary programme directing Slovenian writers to depict authentic peasant life?
  54. Which novella collection by Prežihov Voranc depicts the harsh existence of illegitimate children and peasant resistance in Carinthia, including the story of Meta and Ožbej?
  55. Which autobiographical novel by the Trieste writer Boris Pahor recounts his imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps such as Natzweiler-Struthof?
  56. How many main dialect groups are traditionally classified within the Slovenian spoken language?
  57. In which script and approximately which century were the Freising Manuscripts (Brižinski spomeniki) written?
  58. Which orthographic innovation did Sebastijan Krelj introduce in his 1566 work Otrozhia biblia to improve Slovenian Protestant spelling?
  59. What is the subject matter of Janez Vajkard Valvasor's monumental 1689 publication Slava vojvodine Kranjske?
  60. What genre of literature is represented by Janez Svetokriški's five-volume Baroque work Sacrum promptuarium, published between 1691 and 1707?
  61. Which classic French Enlightenment comedy by Beaumarchais served as the source material for Anton Tomaž Linhart's play Ta veseli dan ali Matiček se ženi?
  62. From which literary tradition did France Prešeren adopt the poetic form of the gazel, characterized by a refrain and mono-rhyme scheme?
  63. Which Italian stanzaic form, consisting of eight eleven-syllable lines rhyming abababcc, is used in the narrative part of Prešeren's Krst pri Savici?
  64. What was Matija Čop's primary contribution to the literary circle around the almanac Kranjska čbelica in the 1830s?
  65. Which thematic contrast forms the core of Simon Jenko's celebrated 1858 poetry cycle Obrazi?
  66. In his patriotic poem Soči, which dramatic future event did Simon Gregorčič prophetically anticipate decades before it occurred?
  67. In Anton Aškerc's realistic ballad Mejnik, what drives Martin to panic as he returns home at night through the woods?
  68. What fundamental social and moral question does Ivan Cankar explore in the narrative Hlapec Jernej in njegova pravica?
  69. Which social group is the primary target of biting political satire in Ivan Cankar's 1901 comedy Za narodov blagor?
  70. Which atmospheric nocturnal setting forms the backdrop of Dragotin Kette's musical poem Na trgu?
  71. Which agricultural crop serves as the central visual and emotional symbol of late summer in Josip Murn's lyrical masterpiece Pesem o ajdi?
  72. What unique stylistic feature distinguishes Srečko Kosovel's avant-garde constructivist poems known as the Consi?
  73. What psychological atmosphere pervades Slavko Grum's Expressionist play Dogodek v mestu Gogi?
  74. Why did Edvard Kocbek's 1951 novella collection Strah in pogum provoke severe political backlash from the communist establishment?
  75. How is the narrative structured in Drago Jančar's acclaimed 2010 novel To noč sem jo videl?
  76. In Slovenian grammar, what is the fundamental difference between 'dovršni glagoli' and 'nedovršni glagoli'?
  77. What is the phonological nature of the Slovenian 'polglasnik' as found in the word 'pes'?
  78. In Slovenian morphology, which word formation process produced the noun 'avtocesta' from 'avto' and 'cesta'?
  79. What specific textual and liturgical genre is represented by the Second Monument among the Freising Manuscripts?
  80. Which regional speech variety did Primož Trubar primarily choose as the baseline for the first Slovenian literary standard in the 16th century?
  81. What was the revolutionary cultural argument made by the Augustinian monk Marko Pohlin in the preface to his 1768 work Kraynska grammatika?
  82. Which intricate structural rule governs the relationship between consecutive sonnets in France Prešeren's Sonetni venec?
  83. Why was France Prešeren's poem Zdravljica banned from publication in the 1847 edition of his Poezije by the Austrian imperial censor?
  84. What traditional Slavic folkloric belief explains the social status and wandering lifestyle of Martinek Spak in Jurčič's Deseti brat?
  85. Which major historical and religious trauma of 17th-century Carniola forms the psychological burden haunting the Khallan family in Tavčar's Visoška kronika?
  86. What notorious action was taken by the Ljubljana prince-bishop Anton Bonaventura Jeglič upon the publication of Ivan Cankar's poetry collection Erotika in 1899?
  87. Which fundamental structural and thematic duality organizes Oton Župančič's renowned patriotic poem Duma?
  88. What apocalyptic historical vision does Srečko Kosovel portray in his celebrated Expressionist poem Ekstaza smrti?
  89. Which theatrical architectural device did Slavko Grum specify for the stage setting of Dogodek v mestu Gogi to expose the private lives of its characters?
  90. In Edvard Kocbek's novella Črna orhideja from Strah in pogum, what is the central moral dilemma faced by the Partisan commander Gregor?
  91. Which of the following phrases demonstrates the correct standard Slovenian dual form for two female subjects?
  92. In the standard Slovenian tonemic accent system, which pitch contrast differentiates words that are otherwise homographs?

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