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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Magister want a representative for?
(a) The Holy Horn
(b) The Holy See
(c) The Holy View
(d) The Holy Tooth

2. Who is the next person to be elected as Magister Ludi?
(a) Designori
(b) Tegularious
(c) Dubios
(d) Knecht

3. Who welcomes Knecht back to Waldzell?
(a) Hirsland
(b) The Magister's deputy
(c) The Magister
(d) Designori

4. What is the name of Knecht's assistant?
(a) Francesco
(b) Tegularius
(c) Philip
(d) Designori

5. What does the Music Master order Knecht to defend?
(a) Himself
(b) His family
(c) The Castalia
(d) The Glass Bead Game

6. What did Knecht not experience the conflict between?
(a) Two jealous women
(b) Marriage and single life
(c) Academia and the normal world
(d) Home and elite school

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

8. How do Knecht's teachers start treating him differently at the Latin school?
(a) As if he were dangerous
(b) As if he were a colleague
(c) As if they were jealous of him
(d) As if they wanted to get rid of him

9. Where does the Music Master live?
(a) Monteport
(b) Munich
(c) Waldzell
(d) Berlin

10. Who invites Knecht to his house?
(a) The Music Master
(b) Designori
(c) The Magister
(d) Ferremonte

11. What is the name of the new Magister?
(a) Fredrich
(b) Dubois
(c) Zbinden
(d) Jacques

12. What kind of exercise did the Glass Bead Game start off as?
(a) A memory improvement exercise
(b) A multiple choice exercise
(c) A IQ exercise
(d) A writing exercise

13. What did Designori study at university?
(a) Literature
(b) Law
(c) Chinese
(d) History

14. Which of Knecht's friends does the new Music Master have on his staff?
(a) Jacobus
(b) Designori
(c) Tegularius
(d) Ferremonte

15. What was the name of Knecht's first school?
(a) Music and Art school
(b) School of Communications
(c) Science school
(d) Latin school

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Knecht return to at the beginning of the chapter?

2. What kind of school do his teachers recommend him for?

3. What is the name of Knecht's headmaster?

4. Who is Knecht's Shadow?

5. Who does Knecht write to about his dilemma?

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