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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. Where does Pleyel meet Carwin?

2. What does Clara identify the voice she hears and associates with the strange man?

3. In what area is Wieland set?

4. Who does Clara recognize Carwin to be?

5. To whom does Pleyel give his accusations about Clara?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the children do with their father's old temple over the years?

2. After the death of the narrator's father, what happened to her family?

3. When Clara goes into town to confront Pleyel, why does she go to Mrs. Baynton's house?

4. What does Pleyel explain are his reasons for doubting Clara when she asks him to recount to her what he thinks he knows?

5. What does Clara realize is the reason that Pleyel is withdrawing from the group?

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

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

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

9. What happens to the narrator's father in Chapter I?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Brown uses more than one iteration on the theme of disappointment. Identify at least two characters who either embody or experience disappointment, and then cite an example to support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the power of the press in Wieland; and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist. Is the press objective? What kind of media bias do they reveal? How are they influenced?

Essay Topic 3

Wieland; and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist is particularly effective in conveying meaning through powerful imagery. Powerful imagery establishes connections in the minds of readers with the story's characters and plot. Imagery is the picture we form in our minds of the story we read. It can involve visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, kinetic, and kinesthetic senses. The author uses these images to translate words into a visual story that we can see and participate in within our minds. Describe the use of imagery in this dystopian novel.

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