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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Freedman describe Hesse's world growing up?
(a) As hostile.
(b) As unmolested.
(c) As divided.
(d) As impregnable.

3. When was interest in Hesse's work revived?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 2000s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1940s.

4. Hesse did NOT suffer from _____________.
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Nausea
(c) Insomnia.
(d) Headaches.

5. Hesse run away from school to __________.
(a) Salzburg.
(b) Stuttgart.
(c) Geneva.
(d) Basel.

6. How many siblings did Hesse have?
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

7. Where did Hesse visit his family in 1902?
(a) Calw.
(b) Tubingen.
(c) Basel.
(d) Geneva.

8. What did Hesse do in 1907?
(a) Built a house.
(b) Moved to America.
(c) Spent a lot of time in spas.
(d) Published poetry and a novel.

9. What was Hesse's family's religion?
(a) Piet.
(b) Quaker.
(c) Calvinist.
(d) Catholic.

10. What was the name of the periodical to which Hesse contributed around the time of his first child's birth?
(a) The Times.
(b) Futurism.
(c) South Germany.
(d) Modernism.

11. Where was Hesse apprenticed before he was brought home?
(a) To a bookseller.
(b) To a factory.
(c) To a lawyer.
(d) To a missionary.

12. What was Hesse's work in Tubingen?
(a) Clockmaker's apprentice.
(b) Law student.
(c) Bookseller's apprentice.
(d) Factory worker.

13. What relation did Hesse's work have with his friendships?
(a) His work had nothing to do with his friends.
(b) He described his friendships in detail in his work.
(c) He would use his friends as characters.
(d) He learned from his friends, but he did not write about them.

14. What did Hesse record in special notebooks?
(a) His dreams.
(b) His thoughts.
(c) His injuries.
(d) His reading.

15. When was Hesse's first child born?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1902.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freedman say people look for in art?

2. Where did Hesse's father meet his wife?

3. What book did Hesse publish in 1911 that was based on his travels to India?

4. What was Hesse's parents' profession?

5. What changed Herr's refusal of Hesse's proposal to marry Maria Bernoulli?

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