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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Demian say causes a person to enter the dark side?
(a) Be yourself
(b) Loving
(c) Opening your eyes
(d) Thinking

2. Who does Sinclair long to see?
(a) Demian's mother
(b) His father
(c) Demian
(d) His mother

3. Where do Sinclair's parents decide to send him?
(a) England
(b) University
(c) Boarding school
(d) A monastry

4. What character from the bible does Demian talk about?
(a) Moses
(b) The repentant thief
(c) John the Baptist
(d) Samson

5. What does Demian explain to Sinclair in this chapter?
(a) How to read music
(b) How to have fun
(c) The art of talking to women
(d) The art of drawing into oneself

6. What bird does Sinclair dream about?
(a) A sparrow hawk
(b) A sea gull
(c) An eagle
(d) A kestrel

7. What are the students surprised that Demian and his mother do not attend?
(a) School
(b) Christmas carols
(c) Church
(d) Parents evening

8. What kind of state does Sinclair find Demian in in this chapter?
(a) A crying fit
(b) Dead
(c) A trance
(d) A seizure

9. What story from the Bible causes Sinclair and Demian's eyes to meet?
(a) Samson and Deliah
(b) Cain and Abel
(c) Fanny and Alexander
(d) The crucifixion

10. Why does Demian say he would be friends with the unrepentant thief?
(a) He knew about the world
(b) He had character
(c) He had money
(d) He was honest

11. What kind of stories do the workmen tell?
(a) Ghost stories
(b) Sea stories
(c) Myths
(d) Fables

12. What special day approaches for Sinclair?
(a) His marriage
(b) His Christening
(c) His birthday
(d) His confirmation

13. What word best describes Franz Kromer?
(a) Bully
(b) Widower
(c) Jailbird
(d) Jock

14. What book is the story of Cain and Abel from?
(a) Genesis
(b) Psalms
(c) Numbers
(d) Exodus

15. What does SInclair say he is torn between in this chapter?
(a) Kromer and Demian
(b) The new world and the old world
(c) Love and hate
(d) His parents beliefs and Demian's teachings

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Sinclair add to the painting?

2. What Bible story does the teacher tell in the class Sinclair shares with Demian?

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

4. What is the sparrow hawk painted onto?

5. What does Sinclair say he has stolen?

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