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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. When Pleyel does not arrive as arranged, what does Clara wonder about?
(a) If he is missing.
(b) If he is sick.
(c) If he is angry at her.
(d) If he does not love her.

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

3. What did the naked and burned person inside the temple have on their arm?
(a) A necklace.
(b) Long hair.
(c) A book chain.
(d) A heavy blow.

4. Where is Clara walking when she hears a voice from the closet warning her to avoid a particular spot in her environment?
(a) The farm.
(b) The club.
(c) The building.
(d) The estate.

5. What do the voices from the closet and during her walks seem to give Clara constantly?
(a) Lines.
(b) Goosebumps.
(c) Angles.
(d) Warnings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator's brother argue with after seeing a letter?

2. Whose perceived wrongdoings are magnified to Pleyel because of dashing expectations?

3. Who is the narrator's brother?

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

5. How many years after his marriage does the narrator's brother have four children of his own?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the narrator's uncle find when he entered the temple?

2. How does Wieland; and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist satirize popular Gothic novels?

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

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

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

6. What does Pleyel accuse Clara of?

7. What does Pleyel learn from the voice that turns out to be true about his lover?

8. When Clara goes into town to confront Pleyel, why does she go to Mrs. Baynton's house?

9. How does the reader learn that Carwin is the villain?

10. Where does the plot to kill Clara appear to have emanated from?

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