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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Chapters 13-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the main characters decide to do with the three lakes on Eduard's estate?
(a) Reinforce all three dams to prevent flooding.
(b) Drain one of the lakes to irrigate the fields.
(c) Sell the land rights around the largest lake.
(d) Bring down the dams to make one large lake.

2. How does Eduard view his previous feelings of love, before he loved Ottilie?
(a) As the pinnacles of human feeling.
(b) As practice for his future seduction of Ottilie.
(c) As necessary endeavors.
(d) As mere wastes of time.

3. What is the name of the first character introduced in the novel?
(a) Eduard.
(b) Ottilie.
(c) Charlotte.
(d) Gardener.

4. What language are the household servants ignorant of?
(a) Italian.
(b) German.
(c) English.
(d) French.

5. What decision does Ottilie make that breaks her usual care and good sense?
(a) To leave Otto in the care of a young village girl.
(b) To lay Otto down on the shoreline and walk alone.
(c) To row across the lake with Otto aboard.
(d) To take Otto up a very steep and narrow cliffside path.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the general substance of Ottilie's first journal entry?

2. Who is married to the owner of the estate?

3. Who helps decorate the building which has been designated for restoration?

4. Whose appearance do the painted decorations of the restored building seem to have?

5. What seemingly miraculous event occurs at the completion of the foundation stone ceremony?

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