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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 faux pas does the foreign visitor's companion notice?
(a) His friend mistranslated a normal word into a profanity.
(b) His friend has distinctly offended his host's family history.
(c) His friend has inadvertently saddened and tormented Ottilie.
(d) His friend has crossed an invisible cultural boundary.

2. Where does Eduard live while away from his estate?
(a) In a room above the town inn.
(b) In a farmstead house.
(c) In a wing of the Count's mansion.
(d) In the newly constructed pavilion.

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

4. What is the nature of the solicitor's visit to Charlotte?
(a) The solicitor comes to advise Charlotte with regards to her pending divorce from Eduard.
(b) The solicitor's client has decided to sue Charlotte for a large sum related to damaged property.
(c) The solicitor's errand is to serve Charlotte with a court summons from a merchant in the village.
(d) The solicitor and his client disagree with Charlotte's decision to move the graves in the churchyard.

5. What do the Captain and Charlotte resolve to do regarding the landscape improvements?
(a) Expand the project to use up their extra household funds.
(b) Hurry the work so that Eduard's energies will be more properly restrained.
(c) Place the entire endeavor on hold until winter is over.
(d) Use their new landscaping expertise to begin their own designing business.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject do Eduard and his male guest discuss in the night?

2. What effect does the foreign visitor to the estate have on Ottilie, when he expounds upon the uselessness of over improving the land?

3. What building has been completed for the celebration planned by Eduard and the Captain?

4. What is the architect reluctant to show publicly?

5. How does Ottilie respond to Charlotte's mention of the Captain potentially getting married?

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