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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hesse work on from 1931 to 1942?
(a) "The Glass Bead Game."
(b) "Steppenwolf."
(c) "Narcissus and Goldmund."
(d) A poem on peace.

2. Why did Hesse not travel to accept his award?
(a) His health was bad.
(b) He was afraid to travel.
(c) He could not afford it.
(d) He wanted to protest the censorship of other writers.

3. Where did Hesse begin to spend time in 1930?
(a) India.
(b) Montagnola.
(c) Chanterella.
(d) Baden.

4. To what does the novel "Narcissus and Goldmund" appeal, in Freedman's account?
(a) The moral sense.
(b) German nationalism.
(c) The religious sense.
(d) The senses.

5. What happened when Hesse began to try to paint his dreams?
(a) He broke with many of his old friends.
(b) His marriage came apart.
(c) His books became more popular than ever.
(d) His books ceased to be reviewed favorably.

6. What was it about Ninon that made Hesse irritable?
(a) Her ideas.
(b) Her whims.
(c) Her absence.
(d) Her taste.

7. What happened when Hesse was called fro duty in 1915?
(a) He ran away.
(b) He got his family to hire a lawyer to get him out of his service.
(c) He failed the physical.
(d) He entered service but never returned from his first leave.

8. How does Freedman explain Hesse's interest in Asian culture?
(a) He says that it changed the topic from Hesse's failing marriage.
(b) He says it renewed Hesse's faith in humanity.
(c) He says it assuaged Hesse's depression.
(d) He says it connected Hesse with his dead parents.

9. What did writing manage for Hesse?
(a) Psychological crises.
(b) His feelings for his wives.
(c) His doubts about his parents.
(d) His financial worries.

10. What does "Narcissus and Goldmund" portray, according to Freedman?
(a) Hesse's friendship with Hugo Ball.
(b) Hesse's third marriage.
(c) Hesse's second marriage.
(d) Hesse's relationship with his children.

11. How did Hesse describe his conflicted feelings in his writing?
(a) In killing off so many of his characters.
(b) In murky dreamscapes.
(c) In narrative incoherence.
(d) In his characters' reversals of decisions.

12. Who was Ninon Dolbin?
(a) A friend of Hesse's.
(b) A fellow writer.
(c) A patron of Hesse's.
(d) A literary critic.

13. Who was Hesse spending his time with by 1928?
(a) Ruth.
(b) Elsie Bodmer.
(c) Ninon.
(d) Maria.

14. Where did Hesse spend most of WW II?
(a) Baden.
(b) Montagnola.
(c) Geneva.
(d) Basel.

15. What happened to Ninon in 1937?
(a) Her parents died.
(b) She had surgery.
(c) She wrote a book about Hesse.
(d) Friends of hers were killed in Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened in Hesse's family in 1916?

2. What part of Hesse's protest about the alteration of his poem raised ire against him?

3. What did Hesse do for escape while Ruth's father was dying?

4. With whom did Hesse break because of politics?

5. Where would Hesse spend time with Ruth Wenger?

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