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Wieland Quiz 1

1 What year was Wieland published?
1798

1799

1783

1810
2 The narrator of the novel is
Clara Wieland

Henry Pleyel

Theodore 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 had a missionary calling

He was apprenticed at a young age

He was very rational and secular

He died in the temple
5 The book the elder Wieland discovered was
About the French Protestant sect the Camissards

Aristotle's Poetics

The Apocrypha

The Koran
6 The elder Wieland moved from Europe to the rural area near
Philadelphia

Baltimore

New York

Boston
7 The elder Wieland died of
Suicide

An unknown, mysterious cause

Old age

Illness
8 Clara's opinion on her father's death was
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

She was sure God killed him

She believed the scientific explanation of spontaneous combustion
9 Clara's closest friend in childhood was
Catharine Pleyel

Louisa Conway

Her brother

Henry Pleyel
10 Wieland's profession was
Politics

Agriculture

Shipping

The ministry
11 In terms of religion, how did Clara and her brother feel?
Clara believed herself more rational and Wieland was very reigious

Both Clara and her brother were very religious and superstitious

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

Wieland was a product of Enlightenment thinking and did not espouse religious beliefs
12 Wieland's intellectual hero was
Cicero

Plato

Aristotle

Descartes
13 Which of the following statements about Henry Pleyel is FALSE?
He lived abroad for many years

He was dedicated to reason, rationality, and skepticism

He was equally religious as Wieland

He was in love with a baroness in Saxony
14 Who is Louisa Conway?
One of Wieland and Catharine's children

The woman Pleyel is in love with

The Wieland's ward

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

Pleyel

God

Clara
16 What does Pleyel believe about the voice Wieland hears?
That it was actually Catharine's; she was playing a trick on him

Wieland's senses deceived him

It was a dream

It was of supernatural origin
17 What was Wieland's character like?
Friendly, open, mirthful

Angry, bitter, depressed

Quiet, meek, shy

Melancholy, reserved, thoughtful
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 was in love with a woman who lived there

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
19 What does the mysterious voice tell Pleyel and Wieland?
That God wants Wieland to remain in America

That Mettingen is unsafe

That Catharine is opposed to the Saxony scheme and that Pleyel's beloved is dead

That Catharine approves of the Saxony scheme
20 What does Clara find so enthralling about the man who visits her house?
His voice

His eyes

His figure

His writing
21 Which of the following statements regarding Clara's response to Carwin is FALSE?
The storm raging outside mirrors the storm raging within her

Thoughts of Carwin lead to thoughts about her brother and his family and their eventual deaths

She spends hours looking at his portrait

Her interest in him was fleeting and insignificant; other thoughts occupied her more
22 While thinking about Carwin in her room, Clara's thoughts also turn to
Religion

Her brother and his family dead

The writings of Cicero

Her romantic interest in Pleyel
23 From where in her home does Clara hear the murderous voices emanating from?
Her closet

In the kitchen

In her maid's room

Under her bed
24 How do Wieland and Pleyel discover Clara fainted upon Wieland's doorstep?
Clara screams to them

Carwin knocks on the door

Catharine was out walking the property

A mysterious voice alerts them
25 When Clara hears the strange voice near the summer-house, what does it say?
It warns her about Carwin

It tells her that her brother is going to die

It tells her Pleyel's beloved had died

It warns her away from this spot because it is dangerous

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