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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the students think Demian knows?
(a) Love
(b) Everything
(c) How to steal
(d) How to converse

2. What does Sinclair fantasize about enjoying?
(a) Sermons
(b) Sunday dinner
(c) Hell
(d) The forbidden

3. What does Demian say the unrepentant thief saw through to the end?
(a) His destiny
(b) His pain
(c) His marriage
(d) The truth

4. What does Sinclair say that drunkards do to their wives?
(a) Rape them
(b) Beat them
(c) Gamble them away
(d) Put them down

5. How does Sinclair feel when Demain gets Kromer off his back?
(a) Angry
(b) Grateful
(c) Curious
(d) Relieved

6. What does Sinclair find it easy to do in this chapter?
(a) Do the school work
(b) Leave his family
(c) Read minds
(d) Fall in love

7. What does Sinclair refer to the world his parents live in?
(a) The world of the forbidden
(b) The world of godliness
(c) The world of light
(d) A world of boredom

8. Which of the following sorts of people were in Sinclair's class?
(a) Sons of factory workers
(b) Orphans
(c) Chimney sweepers
(d) Sons of mayors

9. Where do Sinclair's parents decide to send him?
(a) A monastry
(b) Boarding school
(c) England
(d) University

10. What does Sinclair contemplate in this opening chapter?
(a) Suicide
(b) Becoming a priest
(c) Leaving home
(d) Finding a wife

11. What kind of apples does Sinclair say he steals?
(a) Crab
(b) Golden pippins
(c) Granny Smiths
(d) Coxes

12. What country is the novel set in?
(a) Holland
(b) Denmark
(c) Japan
(d) Germany

13. What story from the Bible causes Sinclair and Demian's eyes to meet?
(a) Fanny and Alexander
(b) The crucifixion
(c) Samson and Deliah
(d) Cain and Abel

14. Who does Sinclair post his painting of the sparrow to?
(a) Kromer
(b) Beatrice
(c) Demian
(d) Alfons

15. What does Demian say causes a person to enter the dark side?
(a) Thinking
(b) Opening your eyes
(c) Loving
(d) Be yourself

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sinclair call the woman he meets in the park?

2. What is Alfons' position in the boarding school?

3. Who does Demian say he would have as a friend rather than the repentant thief?

4. Who does Demian say presides over the bad side of the world?

5. Which of the following does Sinclair add to the painting?

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