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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was "Siddhartha" received?
(a) Critics lambasted it.
(b) It was accepted, and its following grew over the years.
(c) Critics lionized it.
(d) Readers rejected it.

2. How does Freedman describe Hesse's lifestyle after leaving Bern?
(a) Aimless and uncomfortable.
(b) Liberated and debased.
(c) Sensational and insincere.
(d) Monastic but productive.

3. What gave Hesse difficulties as he got older?
(a) His memory.
(b) His eyesight.
(c) His appendix.
(d) His digestion.

4. What did Hesse work on from 1931 to 1942?
(a) "The Glass Bead Game."
(b) "Narcissus and Goldmund."
(c) "Steppenwolf."
(d) A poem on peace.

5. What happened to Ninon in 1937?
(a) Friends of hers were killed in Germany.
(b) She wrote a book about Hesse.
(c) Her parents died.
(d) She had surgery.

6. What was Hesse planning to do when he visited the spa in Baden in 1923?
(a) Visit India.
(b) Leave Europe.
(c) Divorce his wife.
(d) Marry Ruth.

7. Hesse ultimately died of _____________.
(a) Leukemia.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Heart disease.
(d) Suicide.

8. What part of Hesse's protest about the alteration of his poem raised ire against him?
(a) His association of Americans with war profiteers.
(b) His list of war crimes committed on both sides.
(c) His use of the word barbarianism.
(d) His celebration of Swiss neutrality.

9. What does "Narcissus and Goldmund" portray, according to Freedman?
(a) Hesse's third marriage.
(b) Hesse's relationship with his children.
(c) Hesse's second marriage.
(d) Hesse's friendship with Hugo Ball.

10. What happened when Hesse was called fro duty in 1915?
(a) He failed the physical.
(b) He ran away.
(c) He entered service but never returned from his first leave.
(d) He got his family to hire a lawyer to get him out of his service.

11. When did Hesse marry Ninon?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1931.

12. How did Hesse describe his conflicted feelings in his writing?
(a) In murky dreamscapes.
(b) In killing off so many of his characters.
(c) In narrative incoherence.
(d) In his characters' reversals of decisions.

13. What caused people to leave Germany in 1933?
(a) The German war reparations clause in the peace that concluded WW I.
(b) The decline of law and order.
(c) The rise of communism.
(d) The rise of the National Socialists.

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

15. What happened to Hesse when the Great War began in 1914?
(a) He was called to service in France.
(b) He was called to service in India.
(c) He was called for service in Germany.
(d) He fled to Switzerland to escape military service.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hesse do for escape while Ruth's father was dying?

2. Where did Hesse spend most of WW II?

3. What did Hesse realize about his problems in 1922?

4. What does the city represent in "Steppenwolf"?

5. When did Hesse die?

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