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Wieland Quiz 1

By Kristen Osborne · Edited by Christine McKeever · Last reviewed May 27, 2012

1 What year was Wieland published?

1783

1799

1798

1810
2 The narrator of the novel is

Theodore Wieland

Clara Wieland

An omniscient, anonymous narrator

Henry Pleyel
3 The Wieland family is

English

German

Swiss

French
4 Which of the following statements regarding the elder Wieland is FALSE?

He was apprenticed at a young age

He died in the temple

He had a missionary calling

He was very rational and secular
5 The book the elder Wieland discovered was

The Apocrypha

The Koran

About the French Protestant sect the Camissards

Aristotle's Poetics
6 The elder Wieland moved from Europe to the rural area near

Baltimore

Boston

Philadelphia

New York
7 The elder Wieland died of

Illness

An unknown, mysterious cause

Old age

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

She believed the scientific explanation of spontaneous combustion

She was assured that he was murdered by another human being

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

She was sure God killed him
9 Clara's closest friend in childhood was

Henry Pleyel

Catharine Pleyel

Her brother

Louisa Conway
10 Wieland's profession was

Agriculture

Shipping

Politics

The ministry
11 In terms of religion, how did Clara and her brother feel?

Clara believed herself more rational and Wieland was very reigious

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

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

Aristotle

Descartes

Plato

Cicero
13 Which of the following statements about Henry Pleyel is FALSE?

He was dedicated to reason, rationality, and skepticism

He lived abroad for many years

He was in love with a baroness in Saxony

He was equally religious as Wieland
14 Who is Louisa Conway?

The Wieland's ward

The woman Pleyel is in love with

One of Wieland and Catharine's children

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

Pleyel

God

Catharine

Clara
16 What does Pleyel believe about the voice Wieland hears?

It was of supernatural origin

It was a dream

Wieland's senses deceived him

That it was actually Catharine's; she was playing a trick on him
17 What was Wieland's character like?

Friendly, open, mirthful

Quiet, meek, shy

Angry, bitter, depressed

Melancholy, reserved, thoughtful
18 Pleyel encourages Wieland to take up his inheritance in Saxony for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

Pleyel was in love with a woman who lived there

Wieland would be rich and enjoy the privileges of rank

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

Wieland kept talking about how he hated America and needed a change
19 What does the mysterious voice tell Pleyel and Wieland?

That Mettingen is unsafe

That Catharine approves of the Saxony scheme

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

That God wants Wieland to remain in America
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?

She spends hours looking at his portrait

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

The storm raging outside mirrors the storm raging within her

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

Her brother and his family dead

Religion

Her romantic interest in Pleyel

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

Under her bed

Her closet

In her maid's room

In the kitchen
24 How do Wieland and Pleyel discover Clara fainted upon Wieland's doorstep?

Carwin knocks on the door

A mysterious voice alerts them

Clara screams to 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 about Carwin

It warns her away from this spot because it is dangerous

It tells her that her brother is going to die

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