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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 is the relationship between an artist's work and his life?
(a) Traumas in Hesse's childhood were instrumental in his art.
(b) Hesse's life clarifies his work.
(c) Hesse's work came primarily from his imagination.
(d) Hesse's life is inscrutable.

2. What does Freedman say about artists at the beginning of his biography of Hesse?
(a) They always avoid confronting their true selves.
(b) They hide behind masks.
(c) They expose themselves in their work.
(d) They are always searching for themselves.

3. When were Hesse's parents married?
(a) 1878.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1872.

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

5. What culture did Hesse participate in?
(a) Counter culture.
(b) Victorian culture.
(c) Industrial culture.
(d) Imperial culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freedman say people look for in art?

2. What did Hesse begin to write in 1884?

3. Who was Hesse's closest friend in Tubingen?

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

5. Where did Hesse begin to develop a social life in Tubingen?

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