1.

Before writing The Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe:

Wrote a tragedy based on the life of Götz von
Berlichingen
Traveled to Italy and wrote a memoir of the experience
Unsuccussfully attempted suicide
Was a poor laborer
2. 2The Sorrows of Young Werther is:
An autobiography
An epistolatory novel
A burlesque
A narrative poem
3. 3Werther was first published in:
1750
1774
1781
1800
4. 4When was Goethe's revision of Werther published?
1777
1781
Posthumously
1810
5. 5Which of the following ISN'T true of Goethe's revision of
Werther?
It emphasizes the editor's role in the narrative, compared to
the original
It is considerably more sympathetic to Werther's point of
view than the original
It is the only version widely available in an English
translation
It is the version widely read today
6. 6Werther is set in:
1774
1771-1772
The South of France
The 1680s
7. 7Almost all of Werther's letters are addressed to:
His friend, Wilhelm
His friend, Albert
His mother
His beloved, Lotte
8. 8Who is Leonora?
Wilhelm's wife, about whom Werther inquires
Werther's beloved
A statue that Werther considers the ideal feminine form
A woman who was in love with Werther before the novel
begins
9. 9Werther's family is:
Happy but stifling
Largely divided by misunderstanding and neglect
Proud of him
Almost all deceased
10. 10Werther compares the peasant women he sees at the well
to:
Children
Women depicted in Homer
A ballad
Women in biblical times
11. 11As the novel begins, what is Werther's opinion of books?
He asks Wilhelm to send his library to his new residence
He is very fond of them
He says he needs none at all
 He says that he needs none but his Homer
12. 12Werther finds the village of Wahlheim:
Dilapidated
Stifling
Charming
Provincial
13. 13Who are Hans and Philip?
Two peasant brothers whom Werther sketches
Werther's horses
Werther's friends, with whom he attends a ball
Lotte's two youngest siblings
14. 14What does Werther say he admires in a woman?
Intellect
Physical strength
Cheerfulness
Beauty
15. 15Bailiff S. is:
The father of Hans and Philip
Disagreeable to Werther
The father of eight children
The father of nine children
16. 16When Werther first sees Lotte, she is:
Dancing with Albert at a ball
Wearing a green dress
Feeding her siblings bread
Splashing in a duck pond
17. 17After Lotte, who is the oldest of the siblings?
Heike
Hans
Sophy
Louis
18. 18Who wrote The Vicar of Wakefield?
Samuel Richardson
Goethe
Oliver Goldsmith
Jean-Jaques Rousseau
19. 19When Werther is dancing with Lotte he:
Kisses her
Stumbles
Dances flawlessly
Winks at her
20. 20Werther's first meeting with Lotte is interrupted by:
His jealous partner
Albert
A thunderstorm
A musical recital
21. 21Who is Klopstock?
A German poet
A German composer
A German philosopher
A German artist
22. 22What is Werther's attitude toward Lotte's brothers and
sisters?
He secretly dislikes them
He considers them to be lovely models for the rest of
humanity
He thinks that they are selfish with Lotte's time
He is pedantic toward them, teaching them to read and write
23. 23Lotte is asked:
To leave for Austria with Albert
To attend a dying woman's deathbed
To bake bread for the parishioners of Wahlheim
 To call off her engagement with Albert
24. 24Who does Werther berate for submitting to bad moods?
Lotte
Friedericke
Herr Schmidt
Albert
25. 25What is Lotte's response to Werther's attack on bad
moods?
She praises his judgement and expression
She scolds him for sympathizing too warmly with
everything
She is thrown into a bad mood herself
She says that he should write a pamphlet on the subject and
promulgate his opinion