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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. What is the name of the town Knecht's first school is located?
(a) Genau
(b) Biroschon
(c) Berolfingen
(d) Grossartig

2. What do Knecht and Father Jacobus discuss?
(a) Castalia
(b) Christianity
(c) The Glass Bead Game
(d) Islam

3. What does Jacobus think Castalia is an imitation of?
(a) Atheist orders
(b) Buddhist orders
(c) Christian orders
(d) Muslim orders

4. Who is Knecht representing while he is at Mariafels?
(a) Castalia
(b) The Glass Bead Game
(c) Designori
(d) His Music Master

5. What subject does the author say the Glass Bead game is tied up with?
(a) Maths
(b) Music
(c) Science
(d) Literature

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Designori often criticize?

2. Who shows Knecht around his new school?

3. How do students of Castalia gain entry to a Castalia school?

4. What do common people call people from the Order?

5. What does Knecht think the Games must be protected from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author say most biographies are?

2. What advice does the Music Master give Knecht when he leaves for Waldzell?

3. What is the Golden Book?

4. How does Knecht's life change after the visit from the Music Master?

5. Describe Knecht's visit with the Music Master.

6. Why does Knecht like the Glass Bead game?

7. Why is Father Jacobus distrustful of Knecht?

8. How did the Glass Bead Game develop in Europe?

9. What does Knecht do at Hirsland?

10. How does the author define the modern biographies?

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