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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Hesse seen by his parents from early childhood?
(a) As mercurial.
(b) As intractable.
(c) As placid.
(d) As enigmatic.

2. What was Hesse's first child's name?
(a) Matthias.
(b) Martin.
(c) Bruno.
(d) Angela.

3. Who was Hesse lecturing on while he was writing "Siddhartha"?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Emerson.
(c) Carlyle.
(d) Dostoevsky.

4. Where did Hesse begin to develop a social life in Tubingen?
(a) At his workplace.
(b) At his aunt's house.
(c) At the library.
(d) At the bars.

5. Where was the house Hesse rented in Ostermundigen located?
(a) Near the ocean.
(b) By a lake.
(c) On a mountainside.
(d) On an estate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Hesse's earliest memory?

2. What group did Hesse's work appeal to?

3. How did Hesse's German audience change during the war?

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

5. When was Hesse's first child born?

(see the answer key)

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