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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. What idea of the male guest strikes Charlotte like a "thunderbolt?"
(a) The man would like to recommend the Captain to a position with a high powered friend.
(b) The man feels Ottilie is dull company, and he advises Charlotte to turn her out of the house.
(c) The man advises Charlotte to run away with the Captain since they are clearly in love.
(d) The man suggests that Charlotte and Eduard divorce so they may marry others.

2. What does the female guest find disagreeable in Eduard?
(a) His apparent passion for Ottilie.
(b) His lack of detail in the landscape planning.
(c) His treatment of Charlotte in front of guests.
(d) His inability to carry on rational conversation.

3. Why does Ottilie avoid a path by the side of the lake?
(a) The place fills her with dread and she gets a headache.
(b) The path reminds her of her lost lover.
(c) She has been warned by the townsfolk that the path is cursed.
(d) She once fell from that path and hurt herself.

4. Whom does Eduard send to speak with Ottilie in private?
(a) His valet.
(b) His confessor.
(c) The architect.
(d) The Captain.

5. What is notable about the letters Eduard writes to Ottilie?
(a) The content of the letters is illegible, mad gibberish.
(b) The letters always come back in the post as "undeliverable."
(c) Charlotte intercepts the letters and answers them in Ottilie's handwriting.
(d) Eduard also writes responses and signs them with Ottilie's name.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Major?

2. What experiment does the foreign visitor's companion try on Charlotte and Ottilie?

3. What request does Eduard make of the person who visits him in his solitude?

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

5. During a stroll around his property with the captain and Charlotte, what activity does Eduard suddenly change his mind about engaging in, and why?

(see the answer key)

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