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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, The Circular Letter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What movement does the beginning of the Galss Bead Game go back to?
(a) The intellectual movement
(b) The surrealist movement
(c) The dada movement
(d) The phony movement

2. What is the name of the main character?
(a) Hermann Hesse
(b) Herman Ungar
(c) Joseph Knecht
(d) Thomas Mann

3. What does Designori teach Knecht?
(a) The real world
(b) The Glass Bead Game
(c) War
(d) Politics

4. What does Designori often criticize?
(a) Academic life
(b) The poor
(c) The Glass Bead Game
(d) The Order

5. What do common people call people from the Order?
(a) Oranges
(b) Saps
(c) Mandarins
(d) Honeysuckles

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Knecht popular with his superiors?

2. What does Knecht devote his time to during his vacation?

3. Which of Knecht's friends does the new Music Master have on his staff?

4. Why does Designori think that speaking to Knecht is like speaking to a foreigner?

5. Who is Knecht's Shadow?

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