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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the father's temple adapted into for socialization?

2. What did the naked and burned person inside the temple have on their arm?

3. What is the conversation that Clara overhears from two voices in her closet about?

4. In what area is Wieland set?

5. What does the religious fanatic build for his beliefs?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Clara fear will appear as a sign of her guilt to Pleyel?

2. What does Clara learn from the voice while walking the estate before she runs into Pleyel?

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

4. What did the children do with their father's old temple over the years?

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

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

7. When Clara hears someone enter the house, what does she assume and do after she sees Carwin?

8. When Carwin steps out of the closet, what does he reveal to Clara before fleeing?

9. What is the warning in Chapter I about?

10. What does Pleyel accuse Clara of?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Wieland; and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist is written primarily in the third-person point of view. Is this point of view more or less effective than telling the story from the first-person perspective?

Essay Topic 2

Love is a recurring theme in Wieland; and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist. How does Clara's feelings about love change from the beginning of the novel to its end? In what ways has she expanded her awareness and beliefs? Is sexuality connected to love for Clara? How does her feelings for Pleyel develop and change, and how does her relationship with him contrast with that of other men that she has had romantic or an idealized relationship with?

Essay Topic 3

Murder and violence appears throughout Wieland; and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist. Who commits murder? Who is violent? In what ways are characters violent or abusive? What is their effect on other characters and their lives? Do these characters change over time?

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