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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. When Pleyel does not arrive as arranged, what does Clara wonder about?

2. What does Pleyel worry that Carwin might do to Clara?

3. In what period is Wieland set?

4. What does Carwin rationalize?

5. Unable to sleep, what does Clara investigate after Pleyel fails to arrive?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Wieland returns from the temple, why does he look troubled?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Pleyel accuse Clara of?

8. What does Clara realize is the reason that Pleyel is withdrawing from the group?

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

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

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

The author uses more than one iteration on the motif of family relationships. Identify at least two instances of this motifs.

Essay Topic 3

Explain the concept of loneliness as exhibited in Wieland; and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist. Which of the characters are lonely? Are they all lonely in some way? Explain the loneliness and the methods and attempts to overcome it.

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