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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. According to Freedman, what experience did Hesse describe in "Steppenwolf"?
(a) Language acquisition.
(b) Neurotic breakdown.
(c) Collective neurosis.
(d) Warfare.

2. Why did Hesse's work on "The Glass Bead Game" stop in 1933?
(a) Writer's block.
(b) Illness.
(c) Depression.
(d) Domestic disturbances.

3. How was "On Toward Peace" altered?
(a) Two lines were omitted.
(b) Lines were added.
(c) Punctuation was omitted.
(d) The ending was omitted.

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

5. What represents the psyche in "The Glass Bead Game"?
(a) Female characters.
(b) Colors and shapes.
(c) Mathematical symbols.
(d) A dialogue between lovers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened when Hesse was called fro duty in 1915?

2. What happened to Hesse's work in Germany as a result of Hesse's protest over the alteration of his poem?

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

4. What was Hesse's relationship with Carl Jung?

5. What did Hans and Elsie Bodmer do for Hesse?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Hesse react to the critic who attacked him in Germany?

2. Describe "The Glass Bead Game."

3. What did Hesse portray in 'Narcissus and Goldmund'?

4. What strains was Hesse feeling after he wrote "Siddhartha"?

5. How does Freedman say that Hesse's writing and his life paralleled each other?

6. How did Hesse's marriage to Ruth progress?

7. Describe "Piktor's Metamorphosis" and Hesse's later writing.

8. Describe Hesse's last years and death.

9. Describe the novel "Siddhartha."

10. What physical problems was Hesse having at the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s?

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