One of the secrets of good teaching is the right question, asked at the right moment in the right form. Just what is the right question? Quite a few factors would have to be enumerated if we were to discuss this problem from a general didactic point of view. Rather let us examine this question of the question from a practical methodological point of view as applicable to the discussion of literary reading matter on the intermediate level. I will first list fifteen possible kinds of questions with their advantages and disadvantages. After this I will show how the discussion in class can be determined by the right question, and whether the questions selected by the teacher are appropriate or not. For this purpose I will briefly analyze a few possible questions for Borchert's "Die Kiichenuhr."