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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Hesse when he decided to become a writer?
(a) Nine.
(b) Six.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Thirteen.

2. Where did Hesse begin to develop a social life in Tubingen?
(a) At the bars.
(b) At his workplace.
(c) At the library.
(d) At his aunt's house.

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

4. Where did Hesse visit his family in 1902?
(a) Geneva.
(b) Tubingen.
(c) Basel.
(d) Calw.

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

6. What novel was Hesse finishing when he returned to work after his mother's death?
(a) Siddhartha.
(b) Steppenwolf.
(c) Hermann Lauscher.
(d) Peter Camenzind.

7. Hesse run away from school to __________.
(a) Basel.
(b) Salzburg.
(c) Geneva.
(d) Stuttgart.

8. What book did Hesse publish in 1911 that was based on his travels to India?
(a) "Hermann Lauscher."
(b) "Siddhartha."
(c) "Peter Camenzind."
(d) "Steppenwolf."

9. What family trait does Freedman say Hesse seems to have inherited?
(a) Bonhomie.
(b) Philandering.
(c) Mental illness.
(d) Creativity.

10. When was interest in Hesse's work revived?
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1940s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 2000s.

11. How did Hesse's income change in his new job?
(a) It decreased slightly.
(b) It increased slightly.
(c) It doubled.
(d) It declined.

12. Why did Hesse's parents want him to pass his degree?
(a) To minimize his military service.
(b) To work in the family business.
(c) To get a better job.
(d) To make him eligible for a good marriage.

13. Whose rule did Hesse grow up under?
(a) Queen Victoria.
(b) Czar Alexander II.
(c) Bonaparte.
(d) Bismarck.

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

15. Freedman said that the tensions in Hesse's works came from ________________.
(a) Conflicting impulses in Hesse's life.
(b) Traumatic experiences Hesse had in childhood.
(c) The conflicts in the air during Hesse's times.
(d) Conflicts between Hesse and his parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hesse begin to write in 1884?

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

3. What was Hesse's family's religion?

4. When did Hesse return to work in the year of his mother's death?

5. What did Hesse begin to do in 1909?

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