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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is married to the owner of the estate?
(a) Charlotte.
(b) Luciane.
(c) Mathilde.
(d) Ottilie.

2. On which procession of people does the new house guest, who arrived during Ottilie's artistic activity, exercise his craft and calling?
(a) The brigade of young gardeners.
(b) The group of street urchins that live in the village.
(c) The company of the estate's housemaids.
(d) The members of the local militia.

3. What activity of Luciane's, meant to amuse the company, ends up with Luciane looking foolish?
(a) Her idea of a game that involves the whole company.
(b) Her performance on the guitar and her accompanying singing.
(c) Her arguments in a carefully staged debate.
(d) Her dance performance in which she is accompanied by a harpist.

4. What request does Eduard make of the person who visits him in his solitude?
(a) For the person's forgiveness and blessing.
(b) This person's help in obtaining a divorce.
(c) For a loan so he may buy a new house.
(d) That this person take a letter to Ottilie.

5. Whose idea is it to place the pavilion in its precise future spot?
(a) Eduard's.
(b) Ottilie's.
(c) The Captain's.
(d) Charlotte's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charlotte resolve to do when she is alone after the kiss with the Captain?

2. What incident prompts the captain and Charlotte to kiss?

3. What specific form of memorializing does Charlotte admit having an aversion to?

4. In what activities do Charlotte and Ottilie engage the village girls?

5. What scientific subject becomes a main object of conversation between the hosts and their male guest?

(see the answer key)

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