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During the occupation, the pastor and writer Kaj Munk wrote the play “Niels Ebbesen”. What did he want to achieve with the play?

In the exam (Danish)

Præsten og forfatteren Kaj Munk skrev under besættelsen skuespillet "Niels Ebbesen". Hvad ville han med stykket?

  1. aPraise the German army and its victoriesRose den tyske hær og dens sejre
  2. bEncourage the Danes to resistOpfordre danskerne til modstandCorrect answer
  3. cTell a funny fairy tale for childrenFortælle et sjovt eventyr for børn

Why?

The play is about a Danish nobleman who killed a German count in 1340. It was meant to stir the Danes to resist the German occupation, and it was banned. Kaj Munk was killed by Nazis in 1944.

Translated with AI. In the exam the question is in Danish, as shown above.

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Questions from past citizenship tests (danskogproever.dk), reproduced verbatim in Danish with the official answers by permission of the Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration (SIRI), and our own practice questions on the facts of the study material “Læremateriale til Indfødsretsprøven” and on Danish values. The English translation and the explanations are ours, made with AI help; in the test the questions are asked in Danish. Current-affairs questions and questions whose official answer no longer holds have been left out. We are not affiliated with SIRI.

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