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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused stress and illness for Hesse?
(a) His children.
(b) His marriage.
(c) His relationship with Ruth.
(d) Financial problems.

2. Whom did Hesse fall afoul of by protesting the alteration of his poem?
(a) His family.
(b) The East Germans.
(c) The Americans.
(d) Ninon.

3. What did Hesse's travels do for his problems?
(a) They introduced him to patrons who helped him.
(b) They compounded them with new affairs and money problems.
(c) They gave him spiritual peace but drained his finances.
(d) They did not solve them.

4. When did Hesse finish writing "Steppenwolf"?
(a) Early 1927.
(b) Late 1927.
(c) Late 1926.
(d) Early 1926.

5. What does the city represent in "Steppenwolf"?
(a) Confusion and being lost.
(b) Human civilization.
(c) Hesse's internal psychology.
(d) Corruption.

6. How did Hesse try to clarify "Siddhartha"?
(a) With a surreal book of dreams.
(b) With a book of criticism.
(c) With a German fairy tale.
(d) With a personal memoir.

7. Where did Hesse travel after he left his wife?
(a) Poland.
(b) Italy.
(c) India.
(d) France.

8. To what does the novel "Narcissus and Goldmund" appeal, in Freedman's account?
(a) The moral sense.
(b) German nationalism.
(c) The senses.
(d) The religious sense.

9. Which book resulted from Hesse's experiences of 1923?
(a) "Demian."
(b) "Steppenwolf."
(c) "Siddhartha."
(d) "Piktor's Metamorphoses."

10. What did Hesse do for escape while Ruth's father was dying?
(a) Studied myths and religion.
(b) Traveled.
(c) Studied medicine.
(d) Went to concerts.

11. How did Hesse spend his time at home when he wasn't traveling or lecturing?
(a) In the taverns.
(b) With his wife and children.
(c) Alone in his study.
(d) In the library.

12. When did Hesse die?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1973.

13. What did Hesse and Ninon celebrate at the end of 1945?
(a) The end of the war.
(b) Hesse's Nobel Prize.
(c) Hesse's 70th birthday.
(d) Ninon's 50th birthday.

14. How was "Narcissus and Goldmund" received?
(a) With critical silence.
(b) Well.
(c) With mixed reviews.
(d) Poorly.

15. Who was Ninon Dolbin?
(a) A literary critic.
(b) A fellow writer.
(c) A patron of Hesse's.
(d) A friend of Hesse's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of Hesse's protest about the alteration of his poem raised ire against him?

2. Why did Hesse not travel to accept his award?

3. Hesse ultimately died of _____________.

4. What began to replace Hesse's work after "Siddhartha"?

5. How was "Siddhartha" received?

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