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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Hesse's earliest memory?
(a) Being lost at a market.
(b) Being lifted to a mountain vista.
(c) Seeing a shooting star.
(d) Nearly drowning in the bathtub.

2. What cultures are blended in Hesse's writing?
(a) Austrian and Italian.
(b) German and Swiss.
(c) Alsatian and German.
(d) Swiss and French.

3. What was Hesse primarily working on in 1907?
(a) A novel "Gertrud."
(b) Raising money for his debts.
(c) Book reviews.
(d) Raising his small children.

4. Why did Hesse decide not to make any public statements about German politics in the 1930s?
(a) He had mixed feelings about German politics.
(b) He was persuaded not to by his friends.
(c) He wanted to retain his German audience.
(d) He feared for his life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Hesse spending his time with by 1928?

2. What does Freedman say about artists at the beginning of his biography of Hesse?

3. What caused people to leave Germany in 1933?

4. How does Freedman describe Hesse's work on "Siddhartha"?

5. Where did Hesse begin to visit when he took a new job after Tubingen?

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