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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Hesse feel in Tubingen?
(a) Lonely and isolated.
(b) Messianic and ill.
(c) Productive and happy.
(d) Confused and desperate.

2. Freedman said that the tensions in Hesse's works came from ________________.
(a) Traumatic experiences Hesse had in childhood.
(b) Conflicts between Hesse and his parents.
(c) Conflicting impulses in Hesse's life.
(d) The conflicts in the air during Hesse's times.

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

4. How did Hesse react to his loneliness?
(a) He read avidly.
(b) He wrote adventure stories.
(c) He traveled.
(d) He drank.

5. When did Hesse reach the height of his popularity?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1910s.
(c) 1890s.
(d) 1940s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Herr Bernoulli refuse his daughter's hand to Hesse?

2. Where did Hesse's grandfather marry his wife?

3. How did Hesse's income change in his new job?

4. What did Hesse write while waiting to marry?

5. When did Hesse return to work in the year of his mother's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did Hesse begin to be successful as a writer?

2. Describe Hesse's marriage with Maria.

3. What did Hesse get from his trip to India in 1911?

4. Who were Hesse's parents? How did they meet?

5. What does Freedman say about Hesse's popularity over the years?

6. What was Hesse's health like, and how did it affect his development?

7. Describe the importance of spas and cures in Hesse's life.

8. What was Hesse's relationship with his family's values as a young man?

9. With what nationality did Hesse identify?

10. Describe Hesse's move to Basel.

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