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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. What does Innstetten NOT do with Effi, which displeases her father?
(a) Introduce her to society.
(b) Consult with her on running the household.
(c) Stroll with her.
(d) Exchange letters.

2. What do several of the people Effi visits with say she is infected with?
(a) Naiveté.
(b) Rationalism.
(c) The flu.
(d) A free spirit.

3. What worries Hertha about Effi's engagement?
(a) That Effi will get her heart broken.
(b) That Hertha is not getting married first.
(c) That it is not an equal match.
(d) That it has happened so quickly.

4. What does the chemist say he has been too fearful to ever ask of a woman?
(a) To take a stroll.
(b) To go riding.
(c) To dance.
(d) To marry.

5. What does Marietta says destroys careers?
(a) The theater.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Laziness.
(d) Greed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Crampas say Heine is his favorite poet?

2. What does Effi send to Innstetten in response to his letters?

3. From her new home, what can Effi see beyond the Plantation?

4. What does Innstetten suggest that he and Effi do before going to the reception that Gieshübler invited them to?

5. What does Effi recall used to happen to adulterous women?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Effi's father talk about after breakfast on the day after Effi's wedding?

2. Who does Effi's father believe would have been a better match for Innstetten?

3. What does Effi's sea burial for the gooseberry skins remind her of?

4. What does Effi think she hears overhead when she awakes in Kessin for the first time?

5. Where does Effi intend to go after her baby is born?

6. What does Effi think of when she sees Innstetten in his office?

7. What change does Innstetten see in Effi after she gives birth?

8. What do the aristocrats who meet Effi have to say about her?

9. Who are Innstetten's domestic servants?

10. Who are Effi's childhood friends?

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