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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. Where does Betram run off to after the Magister's death?

2. What does the Music Master order Knecht to defend?

3. What was the second academic subject that the Game embraced?

4. Who does the author call the historian of literature?

5. Who visits Knecht in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the headmaster call Knecht to his office?

2. What does it mean to be a lifelong member of the Order?

3. What does Knecht learn from Father Jacobus?

4. What is special about Waldzell School?

5. How did the Glass Bead Game originate?

6. How did the Glass Bead Game develop in Europe?

7. Who does the author say his book was intended for?

8. Describe the monastery at Mariafels?

9. What is the Glass Bead Game?

10. What is Knecht's only restriction during free study?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the intellectual life.

1) What are intellectuals and how do they view life?

2) What influence have Intellectuals had on popular culture?

3) How does the author express both the negative and positive aspects of Intellectual life? How has the intellectual shaped the main characters?

Essay Topic 2

Compare Knecht's character to the person he was at the beginning of the book to the person he is at the end of the book.

1) What did Ishmael hope to achieve in his life?

2) What events changes Knecht's ideas about life?

3) How has Knecht's character changed by the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Hesse's life. In what way is his life and personality reflected in the book? Where could he have learned about the world of espionage? In what ways is he like or unlike Knecht?

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