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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 Clara lock, afraid as much for Pleyel's life as for her own after seeing Carwin?
(a) Her door.
(b) Her bedroom.
(c) Her safe.
(d) Her cellar.

2. In what form is the story of Wieland written?
(a) A journal.
(b) A string of loose thoughts.
(c) A poem.
(d) A letter.

3. Whose perceived wrongdoings are magnified to Pleyel because of dashing expectations?
(a) Clara.
(b) Charles.
(c) Brown.
(d) Wieland.

4. Who hides in the closet of Clara's house?
(a) Charles.
(b) Margot.
(c) Carwin.
(d) Brown.

5. Why does the religious fanatic come to America?
(a) To advise friends.
(b) To win the lottery.
(c) To convert the natives.
(d) To play pool.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Carwin's plan thwarted by that he tells Clara about?

2. When Clara has a dream that her brother is luring her to death, who rescues her?

3. Who does the narrator's uncle find naked and burned inside the temple?

4. What does Clara do when she sees Pleyel to confront him?

5. What does Pleyel implore Clara to admit when she comes to see him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Pleyel believe is the reason that Clara is involved with Carwin, and how does Wieland advise her?

2. What does Pleyel explain are his reasons for doubting Clara when she asks him to recount to her what he thinks he knows?

3. What happens to the narrator's father in Chapter I?

4. After the death of the narrator's father, what happened to her family?

5. When Clara anticipates Pleyel's arrival, what does she think is the reason that he does not appear?

6. What does Clara go to her brother to explain?

7. Why does Pleyel end up asking Clara for forgiveness for his words?

8. What is the writing style and storyline of Wieland; and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist?

9. How does Carwin try to explain the voices to Clara and her friends?

10. How does the mysterious death of the narrator's father set the tone of the novel?

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