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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. Where have the two young women mentioned in Part I, Chapter 1, been living for some years?
(a) At the estate.
(b) At the royal court.
(c) At a boarding school.
(d) At the home of a distant relative.

2. What artistic activity does the architect plan for Ottilie to be centrally involved in?
(a) Exhibiting her artwork at the royal court.
(b) Portraying Mary in a tableau of the birth of Jesus.
(c) Reciting a series of Petrarchan sonnets.
(d) Hosting and starring in a pianoforte recital.

3. How does Ottilie die?
(a) She convinces Nanni to poison her.
(b) She hangs herself.
(c) She jumps to her death from a cliff.
(d) She starves herself.

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

5. What very capable person, who takes over the work of the landscape improvements, is the Captain very pleased with?
(a) The architect.
(b) The parson.
(c) The beggar.
(d) The gardener.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who addresses the crowd at the foundation stone ceremony?

2. What portion of the building being restored will receive special attention through painted decorations?

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

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

5. Where does Eduard wait, at least for a little while, while the Major relays Eduard's plan to Charlotte?

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