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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 occurrence disrupts the event Werther and his new female friend are attending?
(a) A thunderstorm.
(b) A heat wave.
(c) A flood.
(d) An earthquake.

2. Why has Werther not written to the usual recipient of his letters as of late?
(a) Werther has been traveling.
(b) Werther has been very ill.
(c) Werther has been busy with business affairs.
(d) Werther has become infatuated with someone.

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

4. What does Werther resolve to do in the letter of September 3?
(a) To take his own life.
(b) To leave Wahlheim.
(c) To propose to Lotte.
(d) To write a love letter to Lotte.

5. 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) Overactive imaginations and heightened sensibilities.
(d) Hysterical women and the terminally ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of one of the people Werther meets in the town square?

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

3. What does the main character find enjoyable about the area he has arrived at in the first letter?

4. To what does Werther compare his "poor heart?"

5. What activity is the young woman who becomes Werther's friend engaged in when Werther meets her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Werther mourn in the letter of May 17, 1771?

2. What is Werther's opinion of his aunt?

3. What specific space, which Werther found in his explorations of the town, does he find pleasurable?

4. What "worthy man" has Werther gotten to know, and where does he live?

5. How is Werther first received by the commoners of the village, and how does Werther view their reaction to him?

6. What does Werther observe the local girls doing?

7. What does Werther ask his friend Wilhelm not to do, and why?

8. How does Werther describe the town of Wahlheim?

9. How does Werther meet Lotte?

10. What is the substance of the conversation between Werther and his companions at the vicar's home?

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