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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 now that he is in this new location at the beginning of the book?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Frustration.
(d) Serenity.

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

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

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

5. In his letter of May 22, what does Werther assert makes people truly happy?
(a) Loving fiercely and often.
(b) Wandering through nature.
(c) Working hard for wealth.
(d) Living in the present moment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in the package Werther receives from Albert on August 26?

2. How does the main character describe the person with whom he must conduct his business?

3. What tone does Werther desire his literature to have?

4. At which event did Werther meet a new female acquaintance?

5. What does Werther like to watch the village girls do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Lotte's views on books and reading?

2. What does Werther observe the local girls doing?

3. What is the substance of Werther's conversation with the farmer-boy in the town square of Wahlheim?

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

5. How does Werther perceive his relation to the commoners of the village?

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

7. Who is Albert, and what is Werther's reaction to learning about him?

8. What is the substance of Werther and Albert's conversation, as Werther relates it in the letter of August 12?

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

10. How does Werther describe his delight in the countryside surrounding Wahlheim?

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