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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 is the principle task of the household Ottilie has undertaken?
(a) Organizing the serving staff.
(b) Keeping the household monies.
(c) Caring for Otto.
(d) Answering all letters coming to the house.

2. Who visits Charlotte and decides to take her news back to Eduard?
(a) The Captain.
(b) The architect.
(c) The Count.
(d) Herr Mittler.

3. After Charlotte confronts him, what does Eduard resolve to do?
(a) To obtain a divorce.
(b) To kill himself.
(c) To seduce Ottilie.
(d) To leave home.

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

5. What proposition does Eduard make to the Major?
(a) The Major should facilitate Eduard's kidnapping of and absconding with Ottilie.
(b) Eduard and Charlotte divorce so the Major can marry Charlotte and Eduard can marry Ottilie.
(c) The Major should pretend to love Charlotte, then ruthlessly abandon her to make her pay for her sins.
(d) Ottilie should become the object of the Major's direct amorous attentions in order to throw Charlotte off of Eduard's plan.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What event endangers the protagonists of the story?

3. What is notable about the letters Eduard writes to Ottilie?

4. What incites Eduard to make a passionate visit to Charlotte?

5. Once the Captain leaves, what does Charlotte suggest to Eduard regarding Ottilie?

(see the answer key)

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