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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose business must the main character deal with in the first letter?
(a) His good friend's.
(b) His father's.
(c) His associate's.
(d) His mother's.

2. What does the main character find enjoyable about the area he has arrived at in the first letter?
(a) The proliferation of tame wildlife.
(b) The proximity to the wide-open sea.
(c) The inexpressible natural beauty.
(d) The few large estates surrounding the town.

3. What is the substance of the main character's business project at the beginning of the book?
(a) The interviewing of potential servants.
(b) Arrangements for travel.
(c) A building contract.
(d) An inheritance dispute.

4. What does Werther consider to be the closest thing to his own heart?
(a) Nature.
(b) God.
(c) Children.
(d) Animals.

5. According to Werther in his letter of May 26, how is great art made?
(a) By honing one's skills in an apprenticeship.
(b) By following the classical rules of proportion.
(c) By adhering to what Nature offers the artist.
(d) By allowing one's imagination to supplement nature.

6. What activity is the young woman who becomes Werther's friend engaged in when Werther meets her?
(a) Dressing for an evening on the town.
(b) Cleaning her father's house.
(c) Cutting bread for children.
(d) Running away from home.

7. How does Werther perceive his relationship to other people?
(a) He feels isolated and alone.
(b) He finds that others like him.
(c) He senses that others are repelled by him.
(d) He feels that he is exactly the same as everyone else.

8. What does Werther implore the addressee of his letters to do in his letter of May 13?
(a) To accompany Werther on a journey.
(b) To reconcile an argument with another good friend.
(c) To send Werther no books.
(d) To write to Werther's mother.

9. In the letter of August 18, what thing does Werther admit to finding both joy and misery in?
(a) Reading.
(b) Darkness.
(c) Nature.
(d) Conversation.

10. What is the main character's name?
(a) Albert.
(b) Lotte.
(c) Werther.
(d) Wilhelm.

11. What does Werther think of Albert?
(a) That Albert is respectable and likable.
(b) That Albert has suspicious motives.
(c) That Albert is boorish and irritating.
(d) That Albert is absolutely uninteresting.

12. Why does Albert keep his pistols always unloaded?
(a) He once had a bad experience when a maid was injured.
(b) He does not believe that firearms are good.
(c) He does not actually know how to load and clean the pistols.
(d) His mother implored him to keep them always unloaded.

13. What subject do Werther and the other young people discuss at the vicar's home?
(a) The problem of revolutionary politics.
(b) The effects of good- and ill-humoredness.
(c) The question of good and evil.
(d) The similarities between children and madmen.

14. What activity does Werther fill his time with, at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Painting.
(b) Carousing.
(c) Learning.
(d) Drinking.

15. To what does Werther compare the young woman with whom he has fallen in love?
(a) A sinner.
(b) A martyr.
(c) A prophet.
(d) A dove.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the reception Werther first received from the common townsfolk?

2. How does the main character describe the town in which he resides as of the first letter?

3. In his letter of May 22, what does Werther assert makes people truly happy?

4. In which country does this novel take place?

5. How does the main character view his business affairs turning out?

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