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

2. Who shows Knecht around his new school?
(a) Fredrich
(b) David
(c) Oscar
(d) Thomas

3. Who asks Knecht to write him a yearly letter?
(a) His music teacher
(b) Designori
(c) The Music Master
(d) His aunt

4. What book does Knecht find the Abbot is well versed in?
(a) Valis
(b) I Ching
(c) The Bible
(d) Tibetian Book of the Dead

5. What two countries does the author state the Game originated in?
(a) England and Germany
(b) Russia and Poland
(c) Japan and Korea
(d) Greece and China

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only way to learn the Glass Bead Game?

2. What game did Knecht play?

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

4. What is Mariafels?

5. How do students of Castalia gain entry to a Castalia school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author know about Knecht's early life?

2. What does Designori think about Castalia?

3. What does Knecht tell the Music Master in his letter?

4. What kind of essay is Life?

5. Describe the monastery at Mariafels?

6. How does Knecht's life change after the visit from the Music Master?

7. What does Knecht have to wait for before he can leave for Mariafels?

8. What does Knecht do at Hirsland?

9. What is the Glass Bead Game?

10. What does the author say most biographies are?

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