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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the subject of the poem that opens the epilogue?
(a) Politics.
(b) Religion.
(c) Morality.
(d) Creativity.

3. With whom was Hesse always popular?
(a) The youth.
(b) Immigrants.
(c) Americans.
(d) Exiles.

4. Hesse did NOT suffer from _____________.
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Headaches.
(c) Insomnia.
(d) Nausea

5. What did Hesse find attractive about the place where he eventually settled after leaving Bern?
(a) The political stability.
(b) Its atmosphere.
(c) The proximity to his wife.
(d) The cultural life.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Hesse win in 1946?

3. When did Hesse begin to publish his poems?

4. Where did Hesse spend New Years in 1926?

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

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