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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. What reasons are given for the supernatural appearances of the story in Wieland?

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

3. Which relations of the narrator die soon after the event at the temple?

4. Where is Clara walking when she hears a voice from the closet warning her to avoid a particular spot in her environment?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Clara go to her brother to explain?

6. What does Pleyel learn from the voice that turns out to be true about his lover?

7. What does Clara learn from the voice while walking the estate before she runs into Pleyel?

8. Why does Pleyel end up asking Clara for forgiveness for his words?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Clara and Wieland are two of the most active characters affecting the storyline of the entire novel.

Part 1) What is their relationship? How do they co-exist, and how do they interact? What is similar about them, and what is different?

Part 2) What are some events that Clara had a direct influence upon? What are some events that Wieland had a direct influence upon?

Part 3) Which character offers support to the group? Which one is stronger?

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

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.

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