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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened immediately before Hesse tried to kill himself?
(a) He was rejected by a woman at a spa.
(b) He was kicked out of school.
(c) He entered his father's business.
(d) He began school.

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

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

4. How did Hesse handle his mother's death in 1902?
(a) He did not attend the funeral.
(b) He had an emotional breakdown.
(c) He grieved with his family.
(d) He delighted in the news.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Hesse reach the height of his popularity?

3. Hesse finished his novel "Peter Camenzind" after traveling to ___________.

4. What culture did Hesse participate in?

5. How did Hesse feel about his novel "Gertrud?"

(see the answer key)

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