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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of school do his teachers recommend him for?
(a) Elite school
(b) Music school
(c) Grammar school
(d) Special needs school

2. What is the only way to learn the Glass Bead Game?
(a) Years of experience
(b) Reading the rules
(c) Talking to players
(d) Learning music

3. Why is Father Jacobus distrustful of Knecht?
(a) His lack of religion
(b) His lack of outside experience
(c) His dark looks
(d) His superior intellignece

4. What is the name of the town Knecht's first school is located?
(a) Genau
(b) Berolfingen
(c) Grossartig
(d) Biroschon

5. What is the Music Master interested in knowing about?
(a) Knecht's work
(b) The organ
(c) The women
(d) The choir

6. What instrument is Father Jacobus playing?
(a) The trumpret
(b) The violin
(c) The piano
(d) The guitar

7. Who is Knecht representing while he is at Mariafels?
(a) Castalia
(b) His Music Master
(c) Designori
(d) The Glass Bead Game

8. Who does Knecht have to be cleared by before he joins the outside world?
(a) The World Department of the Board of Educators
(b) The EU Government
(c) The Political Department of the Board of Educators
(d) The German Goverment

9. What type of theme must a game be started with?
(a) Country
(b) Any
(c) Academic
(d) Musical

10. What does Designori often criticize?
(a) Academic life
(b) The poor
(c) The Order
(d) The Glass Bead Game

11. What does Designori think Knecht will become?
(a) A politician
(b) A Music Master
(c) A Games Mater
(d) A Magister

12. What religion do people assume that Knecht dabbled in while at the monastery?
(a) Buddhism
(b) Islam
(c) Hinduism
(d) Christianity

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

14. What does Knecht like to write?
(a) Limericks
(b) Novels
(c) Poetry
(d) Short stories

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Knecht not like the position of Magister?

2. What does the author say music comes from?

3. Who does Designori now work for?

4. What did Knecht not experience the conflict between?

5. What game did Knecht play?

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