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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Chapters 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is notable about the letters Eduard writes to Ottilie?
(a) Charlotte intercepts the letters and answers them in Ottilie's handwriting.
(b) The letters always come back in the post as "undeliverable."
(c) The content of the letters is illegible, mad gibberish.
(d) Eduard also writes responses and signs them with Ottilie's name.

2. What thought about Ottilie's future preoccupies Charlotte?
(a) Whether Ottilie will marry and whom.
(b) What profession Ottilie will take and when.
(c) When Ottilie will die and how.
(d) Whether Ottilie will forgive Eduard and why.

3. What is the principle task of the household Ottilie has undertaken?
(a) Keeping the household monies.
(b) Answering all letters coming to the house.
(c) Caring for Otto.
(d) Organizing the serving staff.

4. What is one subject of the guests and hosts' conversation during the group's first dinner together?
(a) Ottilie's schooling and her future as a governess.
(b) The new taxation structure favored by the monarchy.
(c) The value of the farmstead and its surrounding fields.
(d) Eduard and Charlotte's early love at court.

5. What service does Ottilie volunteer to do for Eduard?
(a) Finalize the design of the chapel.
(b) Repair his many torn articles of clothing.
(c) Make the final copy of the farmstead sale contract.
(d) Finish the lengthy inventory of the household.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the peasant girl who attaches herself to Ottilie?

2. What request does Eduard make of the person who visits him in his solitude?

3. During a stroll around his property with the captain and Charlotte, what activity does Eduard suddenly change his mind about engaging in, and why?

4. What does Ottilie set in the foundation stone with the other peoples' offerings?

5. What event endangers the protagonists of the story?

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