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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hesse find attractive about the place where he eventually settled after leaving Bern?
(a) The cultural life.
(b) The proximity to his wife.
(c) The political stability.
(d) Its atmosphere.

2. In what role did "Siddhartha" put Hesse?
(a) Martyr.
(b) Rebel leader.
(c) Spiritual leader of the youth.
(d) Prophet.

3. Whom was Hesse with on his fiftieth birthday?
(a) Ninon and his friend Hugo Ball.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Maria and his children.
(d) Elsie Bodmer.

4. What was Hesse's last novel?
(a) "Journey to the East."
(b) "Steppenwolf."
(c) "The Glass Bead Game."
(d) "Narcissus and Goldmund."

5. How was "Narcissus and Goldmund" received?
(a) With mixed reviews.
(b) Well.
(c) Poorly.
(d) With critical silence.

6. Why did Hesse decide not to make any public statements about German politics in the 1930s?
(a) He feared for his life.
(b) He wanted to retain his German audience.
(c) He was persuaded not to by his friends.
(d) He had mixed feelings about German politics.

7. How was "Siddhartha" received?
(a) It was accepted, and its following grew over the years.
(b) Readers rejected it.
(c) Critics lambasted it.
(d) Critics lionized it.

8. What was the subject of Hesse's book "Rosshalde"?
(a) The Hesses' lives in 1912-13.
(b) Hesse's unhappy marriage.
(c) Hesse's childhood.
(d) Hesse's children's birth.

9. What happened in Hesse's family in 1916?
(a) His father died.
(b) His mother died.
(c) He and his wife separated.
(d) His son died.

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

11. What did Hesse and Ninon celebrate at the end of 1945?
(a) The end of the war.
(b) Hesse's Nobel Prize.
(c) Ninon's 50th birthday.
(d) Hesse's 70th birthday.

12. What does Freedman say the period of Hesse's renewed writing and painting after separating from his wife is called?
(a) Hesse's third new life.
(b) Hesse's renewal.
(c) Hesse's transition.
(d) Hesse's renaissance.

13. What did Hesse win in 1946?
(a) The Bauernfeld Prize.
(b) The Pulitzer Prize for Literature.
(c) The Nobel Prize for Literature.
(d) The Gottfried Keller Priz.

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

15. Who was Hesse lecturing on while he was writing "Siddhartha"?
(a) Carlyle.
(b) Emerson.
(c) Dostoevsky.
(d) Tolstoy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What caused stress and illness for Hesse?

3. How was "On Toward Peace" altered?

4. When did Hesse die?

5. What began to replace Hesse's work after "Siddhartha"?

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