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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. In Part I, how does the narrator describe encounters with different parties?
(a) Different parties are very secretive.
(b) As difficult and confusing.
(c) Parties ban together for the rest of the journey.
(d) As pleasant, festive days.

2. In Part II, what does H.H. say he would willing exchange his belief for?
(a) A chance to converse with Siddhartha.
(b) A more hopeful belief.
(c) A chance to see the Christ child.
(d) A chance to go home.

3. What is the deserter relieved of by the Speaker in Part I?
(a) His cloak.
(b) His personal journal.
(c) His prayer book.
(d) His vow of silence.

4. What do the officials instruct the narrator to do once he is a member of the League?
(a) Attach himself to a group of ten people en route to the expidition.
(b) Meditate and prepare his body and soul to accept the Tao.
(c) Stand vigil over the sacred book for one full day and night.
(d) Fast for forty days to prove he is worthy of the task before him.

5. How does the narrator describe all the artists, poets, and musicians among the group in Part I?
(a) Gracious hosts at the feast in Zurich.
(b) Animated yet half-real, half-there.
(c) Distracting the group from their goal.
(d) The chief source of comfort for the group.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe his country at the end of the World War?

2. What is the narrator's life-goal?

3. In Part I, where does the narrator say his happiness arises from?

4. What impression do most people have of the League?

5. In Part I, what does the narrator believe is his great fortune?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does H.H. say is his personal goal on the League's journey to the east?

2. In Part I, why does H.H. say the "Third Empire" has shattered?

3. In Part II, does H.H. believe he can tell his story?

4. Who does H.H. compare his journey and its participants to in Part II?

5. Describe Leo's characteristics as put forth in Part II by H.H.

6. Why do you think H.H. says there was a leaning towards Easter religions after the World War?

7. What extraordinary thing happens to each member of the journey in Morbio Inferore?

8. In Part II, what does H.H. say is a well known human weakness about "things"?

9. In Part I, why does H.H. say it is his "destiny" to join in a great experience?

10. In Part I why does H.H. insist that other authors who claim to be members of the League and write travel diaries are not telling the truth?

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