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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, pgs. 87-102.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does Freedman give for Hesse's choice of subject matter?
(a) Hesse was looking for a sense of self.
(b) Hesse was trying to prophesy a better future.
(c) Hesse was trying to unravel the mystery of his birth.
(d) Hesse was trying to purge a sense of inherited guilt.

2. What was Hesse's relationship with the works he began to write in Tubingen?
(a) He disowned them.
(b) He kept working on them until they sold.
(c) He burned them all.
(d) He incorporated them into his later work.

3. What circles was Hesse running in when he took his job after Tubingen?
(a) Prostitutes and vagrants.
(b) Writers and radicals.
(c) Artists and professors.
(d) Painters and sculptors.

4. What did Hesse record in special notebooks?
(a) His thoughts.
(b) His injuries.
(c) His reading.
(d) His dreams.

5. Hesse's parents raised him for ___________.
(a) The military.
(b) The seminary.
(c) The law.
(d) Business.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hesse do with friends Hans Drach and Heinrich Jennen?

2. What was beginning to happen in 1901, when Hesse became depressed?

3. Where was Hesse born?

4. After Tubingen, how often did Hesse return home from his new job to visit family for holidays?

5. Where did Hesse work once he had royalties coming in from his published works?

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