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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 reasons are given for the supernatural appearances of the story in Wieland?

2. After accusing Clara, what does Pleyel do?

3. What had Carwin begged for from Clara a few weeks prior to Pleyel mentioning meeting him?

4. When Clara is alone in her room, what does she wake up to hear?

5. What does Clara lock, afraid as much for Pleyel's life as for her own after seeing Carwin?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the warning in Chapter I about?

3. How do the voices protect Clara from death in her room?

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

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

6. Why is Pleyel unhappy about not receiving news from Europe?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Catherine. What is her role in the story? What was Brown trying to accomplish by creating Catherine's character in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Brown uses more than one iteration on the motif of grief and loss. Identify at least two instances of grief and loss in the book.

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