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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sinclair describe his world as a realm of before he met Kromer?
(a) Laughter and lightness
(b) Innocence and laughter
(c) Love and lightness
(d) Love and goodness

2. What does Sinclair think that Demian's ideas threaten?
(a) His childhood
(b) His family
(c) His adulthood
(d) World peace

3. What is Alfons' position in the boarding school?
(a) Teacher
(b) Dean
(c) Monk
(d) Oldest boy

4. What word best describes the woman Sinclair sees in the park?
(a) Petite
(b) Boyish
(c) Feminine
(d) Fun

5. Whose portrait does Demain try to paint?
(a) Beatrice's
(b) Jesus'
(c) Dante's
(d) Demian's

6. Where does Sinclair's father say Demian got his ideas about Cain?
(a) Muslims
(b) Baptists
(c) Cainites
(d) Jehova Witnesses

7. What does Sinclair fantasize about enjoying?
(a) Hell
(b) The forbidden
(c) Sunday dinner
(d) Sermons

8. Which of the following does Sinclair add to the painting?
(a) Nuts
(b) Fairness
(c) Words
(d) Destiny

9. What does Sinclair say that drunkards do to their wives?
(a) Gamble them away
(b) Beat them
(c) Put them down
(d) Rape them

10. Who does Sinclair meet at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) James Dean
(b) Alfons Beck
(c) Freda Fromby
(d) Eva Janus

11. Which of the following does Sinclair say the forbidden world is full of?
(a) Fun
(b) Drink
(c) Scandal
(d) Hate

12. What kind of apples does Sinclair say he steals?
(a) Coxes
(b) Granny Smiths
(c) Golden pippins
(d) Crab

13. What kind of school did Sinclair go to?
(a) Latin school
(b) Catholic school
(c) Grammar school
(d) Public school

14. Who does Demian say he would have as a friend rather than the repentant thief?
(a) Mary Magdelene
(b) Pontius Pilate
(c) The Roman guards
(d) The unrepentant man

15. Which of the following does Kromer demand Sinclair do to pay off his debt?
(a) Steal
(b) Give away his bike
(c) Murder
(d) Go to church

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Demian say causes a person to enter the dark side?

2. What is half the body of the sparrow hawk stuck in?

3. What does Demian encourage Sinclair to interpret with imagination?

4. What does Sinclair's father dismiss Demian's ideas as?

5. What is the sparrow hawk painted onto?

(see the answer keys)

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