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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What game did Knecht play?
(a) The Orange Seed Game
(b) The Glass Bead Game
(c) The Adventure Game
(d) The Horror Game

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

3. What do Knecht and Father Jacobus discuss?
(a) Islam
(b) The Glass Bead Game
(c) Christianity
(d) Castalia

4. How do students of Castalia gain entry to a Castalia school?
(a) Through the Glass Bead Game
(b) Through examinations
(c) Through their teachers
(d) Through marriage

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

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

7. Where does Knecht return to at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) Munich
(b) Mariafels
(c) Hinter
(d) Waldzell

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

9. What is the name of Knecht's headmaster?
(a) Plinio
(b) Zbinden
(c) Designori
(d) Ferremonte

10. Who wins first prize for the Glass Bead competition?
(a) Designori
(b) Dubios
(c) Knecht
(d) Tegularius

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

12. What is the name of the book Knecht's name is placed in?
(a) The Golden Book
(b) The Ludi Book
(c) The Master in Waiting Book
(d) The Glass Bead Book

13. Who is Knecht's Shadow?
(a) Designori
(b) Zbinden
(c) Dubios
(d) Tegularius

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

15. What movement does the beginning of the Galss Bead Game go back to?
(a) The intellectual movement
(b) The phony movement
(c) The dada movement
(d) The surrealist movement

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mariafels?

2. Who does Designori say he won a struggle with?

3. What school does Knecht tell his Music Master he would like to enter?

4. Which of Knecht's friends does the new Music Master have on his staff?

5. What does Knecht think the Games must be protected from?

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