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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sinclair contemplate in this opening chapter?
(a) Finding a wife
(b) Becoming a priest
(c) Suicide
(d) Leaving home

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

3. What is half the body of the sparrow hawk stuck in?
(a) A dark globe
(b) An egg
(c) Mud
(d) Sand

4. What book does Sinclair say he follows in this chapter?
(a) The dictionary
(b) The Bible
(c) The Tanakh
(d) The Koran

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

6. What does Sinclair feel he is growing away from in this chapter?
(a) Himself
(b) His studies
(c) His family
(d) God

7. What relationship in Sinclair's life begins to deteriorate?
(a) His father's
(b) His sister's
(c) His mother's
(d) Demian's

8. What does Kromer demand from Sinclair?
(a) His pants
(b) A kiss
(c) His loyalty
(d) Money

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

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

11. What does Demian read in this chapter?
(a) The Bible
(b) Sinclair's thoughts
(c) The Koran
(d) Arabic

12. Why can Sinclair not say good bye to Demian?
(a) He is away on a trip
(b) Demian is attending the same school
(c) He is meditating
(d) They have had an argument

13. Who does Sinclair want to save him?
(a) His mother
(b) His father
(c) Demian
(d) Kromer

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

15. What country is the novel set in?
(a) Germany
(b) Denmark
(c) Japan
(d) Holland

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gives Sinclair a new interpretation of the story of Cain and Abel?

2. Who does Sinclair try to impress in the opening chapter?

3. What does Alfons tell Sinclair about?

4. What does Demian say it is possible to will?

5. Where does Sinclair have a troublesome meeting in the rain with Kromer?

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