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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened immediately before Hesse tried to kill himself?
(a) He began school.
(b) He was rejected by a woman at a spa.
(c) He entered his father's business.
(d) He was kicked out of school.

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

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

4. How did Hesse react to his loneliness?
(a) He drank.
(b) He wrote adventure stories.
(c) He read avidly.
(d) He traveled.

5. What was Hesse's work in Tubingen?
(a) Clockmaker's apprentice.
(b) Law student.
(c) Bookseller's apprentice.
(d) Factory worker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Hesse meet Herr Bernoulli?

2. Why did Hesse's parents want him to pass his degree?

3. What family trait does Freedman say Hesse seems to have inherited?

4. When did Hesse learn to see a connection between art and rebellion?

5. Hesse's upbringing was influenced by the cultures of __________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Hesse's style change after his initial success?

2. Where would Hesse run away from? Where would he run away to?

3. What was Hesse's early childhood like?

4. What is Freedman's stance with regard to the relationship between Hesse's life and works?

5. What was Hesse's health like, and how did it affect his development?

6. How does Freedman describe Hesse's childhood?

7. Where did Hesse's writing come from?

8. What does Freedman say about artists' lives, at the beginning of the prologue?

9. Why was 1902 an important year for Hesse?

10. How big was Hesse's family?

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