Steppenwolf By Hermann Hesse Study Help Quiz

1:  Who does Harry Haller, or Steppenwolf, leave the manuscript to?

a. Rosa Kreisler

b. The nephew

c. The professor

d. Hermine


2:  Which of the following does Steppenwolf despise?

a. Nature

b. Love

c. The bourgeoisie

d. Mozart


3:  What does the Peddler give to Steppenwolf?

a. A ticket

b. A gramophone

c. The picture of Erica

d. Treatise on the Steppenwolf


4:  Who does Hermine remind Steppenwolf of?

a. Herman

b. Maria

c. Gustav

d. The aunt


5:  Who is Steppenwolf’s lover in the novel?

a. Pablo

b. Erica

c. Maria

d. The professor’s wife


6:  Where does Steppenwolf go after the Fancy Dress Ball ends?

a. To his rooms at the Aunt’s house

b. To Hermine’s apartment

c. To the Black Eagle

d. To the Magic Theater


7:  Who does Steppenwolf meet in the gallery “JOLLY HUNTING; GREAT HUNT IN AUTOMOBILES”?

a. Gustav

b. Pablo

c. Agostino

d. Goethe


8:  Identify the source of the following quote: “For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.”

a. Pablo

b. Steppenwolf

c. The professor

d. Hermine


9:  Identify the source of the following quote: “What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life. The cause of this apparently was that at the bottom of his heart he knew all the time (or thought he knew) that he was in reality not a man, but a wolf of the Steppes.”

a. The treatise

b. Steppenwolf

c. Hermine

d. Maria


10:  Identify the source of the following quote: “You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time.”

a. Mozart

b. Brahms

c. Wagner

d. Goethe


11:  Identify the source of the following quote: “You won’t find it easy, but you will do it. You will carry out my command and — kill me. There — ask no more.”

a. Maria

b. Hermine

c. Erica

d. The aunt


12:  Identify the source of the following quote: “It is the world of your own soul that you seek. Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.”

a. Pablo

b. Gustav

c. Mozart

d. Goethe


13:  Identify the source of the following quote: “Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”

a. Hermine

b. Goethe

c. The professor

d. Mozart




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