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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What illness did Hesse suffer from in Bern?
(a) Panic attacks.
(b) Insomnia.
(c) Depression.
(d) Scarlet fever.

2. Who was Hesse spending his time with by 1928?
(a) Elsie Bodmer.
(b) Ninon.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Maria.

3. What do Narcissus and Goldmund represent, in Freedman's account of "Narcissus and Goldmund"?
(a) Male and female principles.
(b) Past and future.
(c) Nature and language.
(d) Two halves of a divided self.

4. What was Hesse's work in Tubingen?
(a) Bookseller's apprentice.
(b) Clockmaker's apprentice.
(c) Law student.
(d) Factory worker.

5. Where did Hesse begin to spend time in 1930?
(a) Baden.
(b) India.
(c) Chanterella.
(d) Montagnola.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Hesse begin to publish his poems?

2. What happened to Hesse when the Great War began in 1914?

3. What happened in Hesse's family in 1916?

4. How was "Narcissus and Goldmund" received?

5. What was it about Ninon that made Hesse irritable?

(see the answer key)

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