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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hesse do to contribute to the war effort?
(a) Hesse wrote propaganda for the ministry of war.
(b) Hesse collected books for German prisoners.
(c) Hesse donated the proceeds from his books.
(d) Hesse campaigned against the war.

2. What did "The Glass Bead Game" represent, in Freedman's account?
(a) A proposal for pacifist political strategy in Germany.
(b) A system that replaced the crumbling German culture.
(c) An escape from contemporary politics.
(d) A solution to the problems in German schools.

3. For what reason was Hesse determined to be an artist?
(a) His brother's failure.
(b) His father's example.
(c) He wanted to rebel against his father.
(d) His mother's inspiration.

4. What was Hesse's relationship with the works he began to write in Tubingen?
(a) He incorporated them into his later work.
(b) He disowned them.
(c) He kept working on them until they sold.
(d) He burned them all.

5. Where did Hesse take work after Tubingen?
(a) Geneva.
(b) Frankfurt.
(c) Calw.
(d) Basel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freedman say is the relationship between an artist's work and his life?

2. What did Hesse do with friends Hans Drach and Heinrich Jennen?

3. What did Hesse begin to do in 1909?

4. What did Hesse record in special notebooks?

5. Which writer was not a member of the circle of Hesse's friends in Tubingen?

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