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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 does Werther feel very connected to?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Science.
(c) History.
(d) Nature.
2. What is Werther aware of, regarding himself and the townsfolk?
(a) That they come from the same common stock.
(b) That they can never be honest with one another.
(c) That they are not, and can never be, equals.
(d) That they must always be suspicious of one another.
3. What activity is the young woman who becomes Werther's friend engaged in when Werther meets her?
(a) Cleaning her father's house.
(b) Dressing for an evening on the town.
(c) Running away from home.
(d) Cutting bread for children.
4. What activity do Werther and his new female friend engage in together?
(a) A competition of riddles.
(b) A recitation of poetry.
(c) A German folk dance.
(d) A walk about the park.
5. According to Werther, what is the one thing that makes Man's life worthwhile?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Art.
(c) Desire.
(d) Love.
Short Answer Questions
1. In which country does this novel take place?
2. How many children does the estate manager have, whom Werther meets?
3. What tone does Werther desire his literature to have?
4. What activity does Werther fill his time with, at the beginning of the novel?
5. How does Werther see the story of the person near the plow in the town square?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Werther mourn in the letter of May 17, 1771?
2. What "worthy man" has Werther gotten to know, and where does he live?
3. What activities does Werther engage in now that he is away from his friends and in a new town?
4. What example does Werther give Albert regarding the justifiability of suicide, and why does Werther take the standpoint he does?
5. What does Werther ask his friend Wilhelm not to do, and why?
6. How is Werther first received by the commoners of the village, and how does Werther view their reaction to him?
7. What specific space, which Werther found in his explorations of the town, does he find pleasurable?
8. What does Werther observe the local girls doing?
9. What is the substance of Werther and Lotte's conversation the night before Werther leaves Wahlheim?
10. What natural feature of the environment of his town does Werther feel particularly drawn to, and to what does he compare the feeling?
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