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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which book resulted from Hesse's experiences of 1923?

2. What was Hesse working on in the summer of 1930?

3. How does Freedman describe Hesse's work on "Siddhartha"?

4. What was the result of Hesse's marriage to his second wife?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the novel "Siddhartha."

2. What did the Hesses celebrate at the end of 1945?

3. How did Hesse's marriage to Ruth progress?

4. What did Hesse portray in 'Narcissus and Goldmund'?

5. Describe "The Glass Bead Game."

6. Describe the novel "Rosshalde."

7. What was Hesse's experience with psychoanalysis?

8. Describe Hesse's travels in 1924 and 1925.

9. What strains was Hesse feeling after he wrote "Siddhartha"?

10. Describe the period known as "Hesse's exile."

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a short review of Freedman's biography of Hesse. What were Freedman's methods in writing the biography, and what were the biography's strengths and weaknesses? What did Freedman leave out or skip over? What could have been treated in greater detail?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Hesse's relationship with his parents and family. Why didn't they get along? What traits of Hesse's strained their relationship, even from his childhood? What traits of his parents contributed to a strained relationship? How did Hesse's works, marriages, and decisions change the nature of that relationship over time?

Essay Topic 3

Hesse's parents were missionaries, and they sent him away to a mission school at six because he was judged too difficult to deal with. What is the role of missionary work in Hesse's life and work? What values did he learn from his parents' missionary work? What values did he learn by fleeing from it or rebelling against it?

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