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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the story told by the foreign visitor end?
(a) The protagonists learn a valuable lesson.
(b) The protagonists marry.
(c) The protagonists must live apart.
(d) The protagonists die.

2. What specific question of Eduard's is Ottilie able to answer with a nod in the affirmative?
(a) Would she like to go back to Charlotte?
(b) Would she would like to live with her great aunt?
(c) Would she like to return to the boarding school?
(d) Will she consent to be Eduard's wife?

3. What is the general content of Ottilie's fourth journal entry?
(a) The necessity of, and arbitrary nature of, engaging with others in social settings.
(b) The problems inherent in her passion for Eduard.
(c) Her own feelings about her relationship with Luciane, specifically.
(d) The necessities that keep women tied to the domestic sphere.

4. What, in general, describes Luciane's personality?
(a) She is energetic and attractive but can be annoying and ignorant of others' desires or needs.
(b) She is reticent and argumentative, and people find her hard to get along with.
(c) She is highly intelligent and beautiful and has a soft, compliant personality.
(d) She is overly critical of everybody, directly to their faces.

5. How does Eduard view the tragedy?
(a) As an obstacle to his happiness that has been removed.
(b) As the worst possible circumstance to ever befall him.
(c) As a chance to rekindle and strengthen his marriage.
(d) As an omen that his love for Ottilie is terribly wrong.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what date does the completion of the restoration of the building occur?

2. What faux pas does the foreign visitor's companion notice?

3. How does Ottilie respond to Luciane's arrival?

4. How does Charlotte respond to the Major's hopeful question about their future together?

5. Which character comes more into the forefront of Charlotte and Ottilie's life after Eduard's departure?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Charlotte's views of memorials?

2. What is the nature of the "pendulum experiment" that one of the foreign visitors proposes, why does he propose it, and what are its results?

3. Where does Eduard go to meet Ottilie, and what are the circumstances of their meeting?

4. Summarize the reason for the solicitor's visit to Charlotte, which is related at the beginning of Part II.

5. What does Eduard plan with the Major regarding their relationships with Charlotte and Ottilie?

6. What is the general substance of Ottilie's first journal entry, at the end of Part II, Chapter 2?

7. What is problematic about Luciane's interactions with other people, and what is one example of this?

8. Briefly describe Luciane, Charlotte's daughter from her first marriage.

9. How does Charlotte and Ottilie's relationship change after Otto's death?

10. What is the schoolmaster's general philosophy on teaching?

(see the answer keys)

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