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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, pgs. 57-87.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freedman say people look for in art?
(a) Gods.
(b) Truths.
(c) Gossip.
(d) Freedom.

2. Where did Hesse's father meet his wife?
(a) In her father's business.
(b) In his father's business.
(c) On a religious retreat.
(d) In his father's publishing house.

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

4. How did Hesse react to his loneliness?
(a) He drank.
(b) He read avidly.
(c) He wrote adventure stories.
(d) He traveled.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Hesse's grandfather marry his wife?

2. What was Hesse's relationship with the works he began to write in Tubingen?

3. Hesse run away from school to __________.

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

5. When did Hesse learn to see a connection between art and rebellion?

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