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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What of old Count von M.'s does the main character praise for its pleasurable effect?
(a) The stables.
(b) The garden.
(c) The fields.
(d) The mansion.

2. What does Werther like to watch the village girls do?
(a) Dance during the festival season.
(b) Pick wildflowers.
(c) Fetch water.
(d) Bathe in the stream.

3. Whom does Werther find in the square of the town Werther has come to love?
(a) Several pretty girls.
(b) Two gentlemen quarreling.
(c) Two young boys.
(d) An elderly couple.

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

5. What is the name of the man Werther meets at the vicar's home?
(a) Mr. Schiller.
(b) Mr. Vollner.
(c) Mr. Metzger.
(d) Mr. Schmidt.

6. How does Werther view those who keep their distance from commoners?
(a) As sensible.
(b) As snobbish.
(c) As cowards.
(d) As wise.

7. What effect does Lotte's continued presence have on Werther?
(a) Werther's senses begin to fail him.
(b) Werther becomes bored.
(c) Werther feels physically ill.
(d) Werther can only speak in riddles.

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

9. What two things does Werther compare in his argument in the letter of August 12?
(a) Innocent children and beatific elders.
(b) Physical illness and suicidal depression.
(c) Hysterical women and the terminally ill.
(d) Overactive imaginations and heightened sensibilities.

10. What is the name of the person to whom Werther writes his letters?
(a) Wilhelm.
(b) Johann.
(c) Friederich.
(d) Albert.

11. What story does the person near the plow in the town square tell Werther?
(a) He tells him of a recent disaster.
(b) He tells him of his devotion to his mistress.
(c) He tells him of his father's death.
(d) He tells him of his time in the King's court.

12. Which poet does Werther's new female friend mention in relation to the event which disrupts the large gathering they attend?
(a) Heine.
(b) Klopstock.
(c) Goethe.
(d) Friedrichson.

13. What skill of Werther's is suffering as a result of his negligence?
(a) His health and wellness.
(b) His art and drawings.
(c) His imagination and sensibility.
(d) His social graces.

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

15. What is the name of one of the people Werther meets in the town square?
(a) Marcus.
(b) Phillips.
(c) Wilhelm.
(d) Johann.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Werther feel now that he is in this new location at the beginning of the book?

2. Of what feeling does Werther complain in the letter of August 22?

3. Why, according to Werther, does the "torrent of genius" so rarely pour forth?

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

5. What feature of the geographic location in which Werther lives holds Werther in "thrall?"

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