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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the deputy also known as?

2. Who does Knecht write to about his dilemma?

3. What does Knecht complete introductory lessons in?

4. Who sees Knecht off at the train station?

5. What can Knecht study now that he has graduated?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is special about Waldzell School?

2. Why does Knecht like the Glass Bead game?

3. Why does Knecht think that free study is the happiest years of his life?

4. What advice does the Music Master give Knecht when he leaves for Waldzell?

5. What does the author say most biographies are?

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

7. What kind of essay is Life?

8. What is the Glass Bead Game?

9. How did the Glass Bead Game originate?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the characters of Knecht and Designori.

1) How are their ideas about life different and how did they form their individual ideas?

2) How do help each other despite their differences?

Essay Topic 2

Write a 500-word essay revolving around one of the following statements:

1) An intellectual movement can only evolve through war and general unrest.

2) The board and its members are too institutionalized to accept any of Knecht's views.

3) Knecht will experience none of the outside world by living in the mountains.

Essay Topic 3

How do you think Knecht would have coped with the real world had he survived? What meaning does Knecht's death give the novel?

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