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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapters 16-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the general content of the postscript of the headmistress's letter to the mistress of the estate?
(a) Criticism of Ottilie.
(b) Praise for Charlotte.
(c) Praise for Maria.
(d) Criticism of Luciane.

2. What activity are the married couple primarily engaged in at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Improving the landscape of their estate.
(b) Considering applications for new household staff.
(c) Deciding whether to enlarge the home itself.
(d) Preparing for a year long tour of Europe.

3. What does Charlotte resolve to do when she is alone after the kiss with the Captain?
(a) Divorce Eduard and travel the continent.
(b) Atone for her sins and die alone.
(c) Run away and marry the Captain.
(d) Strengthen her marriage with Eduard.

4. What does the schoolmaster's second letter say about Ottilie, in general?
(a) That she is a troublemaker and that the other girls fear and shun her.
(b) That she is one of the stupidest girls at the school, and he recommends she be sent home.
(c) That she is intelligent, but not suited to the environment of the school.
(d) That she is the first girl of the school and has won all the year's academic prizes.

5. What do the Captain and Charlotte resolve to do regarding the landscape improvements?
(a) Expand the project to use up their extra household funds.
(b) Use their new landscaping expertise to begin their own designing business.
(c) Hurry the work so that Eduard's energies will be more properly restrained.
(d) Place the entire endeavor on hold until winter is over.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who visits Charlotte and decides to take her news back to Eduard?

2. What activity does the male guest propose to his hosts upon his first look at the lands around the estate?

3. What prevents Eduard from going through with his plan to keep Ottilie always near him?

4. How do Eduard and Charlotte act in front of the others the morning after they sleep together?

5. What does Ottilie see as her "everything?"

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