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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Clara lock, afraid as much for Pleyel's life as for her own after seeing Carwin?
(a) Her safe.
(b) Her bedroom.
(c) Her door.
(d) Her cellar.

2. Where is Clara walking when she hears a voice from the closet warning her to avoid a particular spot in her environment?
(a) The farm.
(b) The building.
(c) The estate.
(d) The club.

3. What is the conversation that Clara overhears from two voices in her closet about?
(a) Her liberation.
(b) Her murder.
(c) Her imprisonment.
(d) Her forgery.

4. Whose love affair is brought into focus intensely?
(a) Lois and Matthew.
(b) Brown and Stuart.
(c) Jan and James.
(d) Clara and Pleyel.

5. Who does the narrator go to live with along with a sibling?
(a) Her aunt.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Clara wake to learn that a mysterious voice had called saying she needed help?

2. Who does the narrator's uncle find naked and burned inside the temple?

3. What does Pleyel accuse Clara of doing with Carwin?

4. What is the name of the orphaned teenage girl that the narrator's brother adopts?

5. What does the fanatic call his estate?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Clara fear will appear as a sign of her guilt to Pleyel?

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

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

5. What is the writing style and storyline of Wieland; and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist?

6. Who is Louisa Conway, and how is she connected to the narrator's brother?

7. How does Wieland; and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist satirize popular Gothic novels?

8. What does Pleyel believe is the reason that Clara is involved with Carwin, and how does Wieland advise her?

9. When Clara hears someone enter the house, what does she assume and do after she sees Carwin?

10. How does the reader learn that Carwin is the villain?

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