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Wieland Quiz 1

1 What year was Wieland published?
1798

1799

1783

1810
2 The narrator of the novel is
Theodore Wieland

Henry Pleyel

Clara Wieland

An omniscient, anonymous narrator
3 The Wieland family is
English

Swiss

French

German
4 Which of the following statements regarding the elder Wieland is FALSE?
He died in the temple

He was apprenticed at a young age

He was very rational and secular

He had a missionary calling
5 The book the elder Wieland discovered was
The Apocrypha

The Koran

Aristotle's Poetics

About the French Protestant sect the Camissards
6 The elder Wieland moved from Europe to the rural area near
New York

Boston

Baltimore

Philadelphia
7 The elder Wieland died of
Old age

An unknown, mysterious cause

Suicide

Illness
8 Clara's opinion on her father's death was
She believed the scientific explanation of spontaneous combustion

She was sure God killed him

She was not sure if it was by a divine hand or spontaneous combustion

She was assured that he was murdered by another human being
9 Clara's closest friend in childhood was
Henry Pleyel

Catharine Pleyel

Her brother

Louisa Conway
10 Wieland's profession was
The ministry

Shipping

Agriculture

Politics
11 In terms of religion, how did Clara and her brother feel?
Wieland was a product of Enlightenment thinking and did not espouse religious beliefs

Neither of them particularly concerned themselves with religion or the natural world

Clara believed herself more rational and Wieland was very reigious

Both Clara and her brother were very religious and superstitious
12 Wieland's intellectual hero was
Plato

Descartes

Aristotle

Cicero
13 Which of the following statements about Henry Pleyel is FALSE?
He was in love with a baroness in Saxony

He was dedicated to reason, rationality, and skepticism

He was equally religious as Wieland

He lived abroad for many years
14 Who is Louisa Conway?
The woman Pleyel is in love with

Clara's maidservant

One of Wieland and Catharine's children

The Wieland's ward
15 Whose voice did Wieland hear when he went to the temple to find the letter he left?
Clara

Pleyel

God

Catharine
16 What does Pleyel believe about the voice Wieland hears?
It was a dream

Wieland's senses deceived him

That it was actually Catharine's; she was playing a trick on him

It was of supernatural origin
17 What was Wieland's character like?
Melancholy, reserved, thoughtful

Angry, bitter, depressed

Quiet, meek, shy

Friendly, open, mirthful
18 Pleyel encourages Wieland to take up his inheritance in Saxony for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
Wieland kept talking about how he hated America and needed a change

Pleyel believed the manners, civil rights, state of politics, and freedom of religion were preferable

Wieland would be rich and enjoy the privileges of rank

Pleyel was in love with a woman who lived there
19 What does the mysterious voice tell Pleyel and Wieland?
That Mettingen is unsafe

That God wants Wieland to remain in America

That Catharine approves of the Saxony scheme

That Catharine is opposed to the Saxony scheme and that Pleyel's beloved is dead
20 What does Clara find so enthralling about the man who visits her house?
His figure

His writing

His voice

His eyes
21 Which of the following statements regarding Clara's response to Carwin is FALSE?
Thoughts of Carwin lead to thoughts about her brother and his family and their eventual deaths

Her interest in him was fleeting and insignificant; other thoughts occupied her more

The storm raging outside mirrors the storm raging within her

She spends hours looking at his portrait
22 While thinking about Carwin in her room, Clara's thoughts also turn to
Her romantic interest in Pleyel

Her brother and his family dead

Religion

The writings of Cicero
23 From where in her home does Clara hear the murderous voices emanating from?
Under her bed

Her closet

In the kitchen

In her maid's room
24 How do Wieland and Pleyel discover Clara fainted upon Wieland's doorstep?
Clara screams to them

Carwin knocks on the door

A mysterious voice alerts them

Catharine was out walking the property
25 When Clara hears the strange voice near the summer-house, what does it say?
It tells her Pleyel's beloved had died

It warns her away from this spot because it is dangerous

It warns her about Carwin

It tells her that her brother is going to die

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