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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. Who is the Major?
(a) A cousin of Eduard's.
(b) A friend of the Count's.
(c) A former flame of the Baroness's.
(d) Formerly the Captain.

2. 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.

3. When is the only time Ottilie does not take Otto with her?
(a) When she walks into town.
(b) When she rows out on the lake.
(c) When she tidies up her wing of the house.
(d) When she strolls through the woods.

4. What experiment does the foreign visitor's companion try on Charlotte and Ottilie?
(a) The leverage trial.
(b) The pendulum experiment.
(c) The scales hypothesis.
(d) The gravity investigation.

5. What significant physical condition is revealed about Charlotte in Part I, Chapter 18?
(a) She has consumption.
(b) She can no longer speak.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She experiences mysterious left-side headaches.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who addresses the crowd at the foundation stone ceremony?

2. Whom does Eduard send to speak with Ottilie in private?

3. What final decision does Eduard make at the end of Part I?

4. Who comes to visit the estate after the foundation stone ceremony?

5. Whose observations on the landscape of the estate serve to enrich Charlotte and Ottilie's experience of the land?

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