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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Chapters 15-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the female guest of the estate related to the mistress of the estate?
(a) She is her daughter.
(b) She is her niece.
(c) She is her step-daughter.
(d) She is her young cousin.

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

3. What new feature of Eduard's character makes him more like Ottilie?
(a) He suffers from one-sided headaches.
(b) He eats less and less.
(c) His handwriting becomes more like Ottilie's.
(d) He loses his voice.

4. How does Eduard resolve to fulfill his growing need to be always around Ottilie?
(a) He decides they must run away together.
(b) By building a secret love nest out of the moss hut.
(c) By conducting a secret correspondence with her.
(d) He asks Ottilie to try to distract Charlotte.

5. Why is Charlotte agitated by the foreign visitor's tale?
(a) She knows that the true story behind the tale involved the Captain.
(b) She wonders whether something like the story will happen to her.
(c) She feels that the visitor told the tale to deliberately upset her.
(d) She finds the use of humor in the story to be in bad taste.

Short Answer Questions

1. What motion does Ottilie make that distinctly translates her desires for the future?

2. Whose idea is it to place the pavilion in its precise future spot?

3. Why does Ottilie avoid a path by the side of the lake?

4. What gift does Ottilie find from Eduard when she returns to her room after the celebration?

5. What activity are the married couple primarily engaged in at the beginning of the novel?

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