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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Years of Freedom.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a student admitted into when he graduates?
(a) The Supreme Court
(b) The Glass Bead Game
(c) The Order
(d) The Board

2. What is the supreme head of the game known as?
(a) The Judge
(b) The General
(c) The Ludi Magister
(d) The Glass Sire

3. What Asian doctrine do the life essays examine?
(a) Reincarnation
(b) Karma
(c) Meditation
(d) Yin and Yang

4. Why can't players and officials expand on the content of the games?
(a) It contains all knowledge
(b) It would no longer be fun
(c) It would stop making sense
(d) People would stop playing

5. Who does the author call the historian of literature?
(a) Herman Hesse
(b) Thomas Mann
(c) Pythagoras
(d) Plinium Ziegenhalss

Short Answer Questions

1. What do common people call people from the Order?

2. What kind of exercise did the Glass Bead Game start off as?

3. In what context does Hesse say he will report on Knecht's life?

4. What is the name of the town Knecht's first school is located?

5. What is the name of the main character?

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