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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 Clara tells Carwin about the murders, what does the information do to Carwin?

2. With whom does Carwin avoid contact when he comes back to America?

3. What does Clara find as she goes upstairs in the house from Carwin?

4. When Wieland demands answers from Carwin after talking to Clara, how does Carwin behave?

5. What does Clara request the use of for the purpose of getting out of the house and away from her uncle?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Clara recover from the trauma of the previous events?

2. How is Carwin described in the newspaper?

3. How does Theodore Wieland, Clara's brother, admit his guilt upfront and explain the reason for his murder?

4. When Carwin hears Judith's glowing tribute to Clara, how does he test it out?

5. How do the strong convictions of Wieland show his madness?

6. Why does Clara appeal to Wieland about Carwin's deceit, and how does Wieland respond?

7. When Carwin wants to understand why she is cursing him, what does she say?

8. How does Carwin stop Wieland from killing Clara?

9. What does Clara's uncle tell her about Carwin and the killer?

10. How does Clara react to Wieland's confession?

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

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

Max and the Major's wife are two important characters that interact and experience a secret relationship together.

Part 1) What is their relationship? How do they co-exist and how do they interact? What is similar about them and what is different?

Part 2) What are some events that the Major's wife had a direct influence upon? What are some events that Max had a direct influence upon?

Part 3) Which character offers support to the group? Which one is stronger and why? What happens to each character?

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