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

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

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

4. How does Freedman describe Hesse's world growing up?
(a) As unmolested.
(b) As impregnable.
(c) As hostile.
(d) As divided.

5. Hesse's upbringing was influenced by the cultures of __________________.
(a) Switzerland and France.
(b) South Africa and Switzerland.
(c) India and Germany.
(d) Italy and Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Hesse begin to publish his poems?

2. Hesse did NOT suffer from _____________.

3. How did Hesse react to his loneliness?

4. How long were Hesse's work days?

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

(see the answer key)

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