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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 did Hesse's followers say about his writing after "Steppenwolf"?
(a) He was swayed by religion.
(b) He had withdrawn from mass culture.
(c) He was tormented by the conflicts inside himself.
(d) He surrendered to mass culture.

2. What do Narcissus and Goldmund represent, in Freedman's account of "Narcissus and Goldmund"?
(a) Male and female principles.
(b) Two halves of a divided self.
(c) Past and future.
(d) Nature and language.

3. Whom was Hesse with on his fiftieth birthday?
(a) Maria and his children.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Elsie Bodmer.
(d) Ninon and his friend Hugo Ball.

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

5. What happened when Hesse began to try to paint his dreams?
(a) His books ceased to be reviewed favorably.
(b) He broke with many of his old friends.
(c) His books became more popular than ever.
(d) His marriage came apart.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Hesse spend the summer of 1945?

2. What was the result of Hesse's marriage to his second wife?

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

4. What happened in Hesse's family in 1916?

5. When did Hesse die?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Hesse's social position by the mid-to-late 1920s?

3. Describe the impact of the Great War on Hesse.

4. Describe Hesse's travels in 1928-1929.

5. Describe "The Glass Bead Game."

6. Describe the novel "Siddhartha."

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

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

9. Describe the progress of Hesse's relationship with Ninon Dolbin.

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

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