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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapters 13-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the male guest criticize about the estate?
(a) The general lack of aptitude of the servants.
(b) The master's indecent liberties taken with the serving-girls.
(c) The mistress's planning and layout of the improvements.
(d) The boring, humdrum nature of the surrounding area.

2. At whom does Eduard lose his temper while making the new plans for the estate?
(a) A beggar.
(b) A parson.
(c) A village girl.
(d) A captain.

3. What about the contract Ottilie copied does Eduard find singular and astonishing?
(a) The contract appears to be entirely in Charlotte's handwriting.
(b) The last portion of the contract seems to be copied in his own hand.
(c) The contract reads as a novel, rather than a legal document.
(d) The entire document is completely illegible.

4. What personal item does Eduard request Ottilie stop wearing?
(a) A shawl knitted by her mother.
(b) A handkerchief embroidered by Charlotte.
(c) A pair of gloves in kid leather.
(d) A miniature portrait of her father.

5. What building do the companions find, with pleasure, that can easily hold all four of them?
(a) The pavilion.
(b) The chapel.
(c) The main house.
(d) The moss hut.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eduard propose to sell to pay for the main project undertaken by the household?

2. Early in the novel, what is the general feeling among the four main occupants of the household?

3. What does the female guest find disagreeable in Eduard?

4. Whom does the master of the estate propose come to live with himself and his wife?

5. What act of submissiveness does Charlotte warn Ottilie against?

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