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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Hesse's career in 1902?
(a) He was more and more widely published.
(b) He was getting frustrated with all the rejection.
(c) He was getting famous.
(d) He was published for the first time.

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

3. Where was Hesse apprenticed before he was brought home?
(a) To a factory.
(b) To a lawyer.
(c) To a missionary.
(d) To a bookseller.

4. Hesse's parents raised him for ___________.
(a) The law.
(b) The seminary.
(c) Business.
(d) The military.

5. When did Hesse arrive in Tubingen?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1888.

6. What cultures are blended in Hesse's writing?
(a) German and Swiss.
(b) Alsatian and German.
(c) Austrian and Italian.
(d) Swiss and French.

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

8. Which writer was not a member of the circle of Hesse's friends in Tubingen?
(a) Ludwig Ugel.
(b) Carlo Hamelehle.
(c) Oskar Rupp.
(d) Ludwig Finckh.

9. After Tubingen, how often did Hesse return home from his new job to visit family for holidays?
(a) Rarely.
(b) Occasionally.
(c) Frequently.
(d) Often.

10. What group did Hesse's work appeal to?
(a) The Futurists.
(b) The Naturists.
(c) The Modernists.
(d) The Youth Movement.

11. Where did Hesse meet Herr Bernoulli?
(a) Through the bookstore.
(b) Through his publisher.
(c) Through his music circle.
(d) Through his parents.

12. What was the name of the periodical to which Hesse contributed around the time of his first child's birth?
(a) Modernism.
(b) Futurism.
(c) The Times.
(d) South Germany.

13. When did Hesse reach the height of his popularity?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1910s.
(c) 1890s.
(d) 1940s.

14. Where did Hesse's grandfather marry his wife?
(a) In South Africa.
(b) In England.
(c) In India.
(d) In Switzerland.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What relation did Hesse's work have with his friendships?

2. When was Hesse born?

3. What did Hesse begin to do in 1909?

4. What culture did Hesse participate in?

5. What does Freedman say about artists at the beginning of his biography of Hesse?

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