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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 was Hesse's family's religion?
(a) Quaker.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Calvinist.
(d) Piet.

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

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

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

5. What was Hesse's parents' profession?
(a) Missionaries.
(b) Social servants.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Small business owners.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Hesse feel in Tubingen?

2. What did Hesse begin to write in 1884?

3. Where did Hesse's father meet his wife?

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

5. Hesse's parents raised him for ___________.

(see the answer key)

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