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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What feeling fills Werther when he is alone in nature?
(a) Fulfillment.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Longing.

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

4. What is the name of the first woman mentioned by the main character?
(a) Sabine.
(b) Adeline.
(c) Leonore.
(d) Maria.

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

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

7. In which location does Werther arrange to meet Lotte and Albert?
(a) In the town square.
(b) In a hayfield.
(c) In the lodge's dining hall.
(d) In the garden.

8. Who is the "Melusine" to whom Werther refers?
(a) A historical French princess.
(b) A mythical water-nymph.
(c) The daughter of the town mayor.
(d) One of the mythical Furies.

9. With whom must the main character transact the business to which he refers in the first letter?
(a) With his fiance.
(b) With his neighbor.
(c) With his aunt.
(d) With his landlord.

10. To what does Werther compare his general opinion on painting in the letter of May 30?
(a) To poetry.
(b) To sketching.
(c) To mathematics.
(d) To drama.

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

12. How does the main character describe the person with whom he must conduct his business?
(a) As vigorous and kind-hearted.
(b) As enthusiastic and humorous.
(c) As wicked and false.
(d) As suspicious and conniving.

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

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

15. What subject do Werther and Lotte discuss at length in the letter of September 10?
(a) Death and the hereafter.
(b) The education of her siblings.
(c) Lotte's plans for her upcoming wedding.
(d) Political intrigue and scandal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Werther and his new female friend discuss in the carriage?

2. To whom is Werther's new female friend "as good as engaged"?

3. What is Werther convinced about, regarding the young woman with whom he has fallen in love?

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

5. Why does Albert keep his pistols always unloaded?

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