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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. What does Eduard's note demand of Charlotte?
(a) That Charlotte treat Ottilie as an equal, not as a lesser relative.
(b) That Charlotte move away from the estate and live as a widow.
(c) That Charlotte send Ottilie to live with her great aunt.
(d) That Charlotte keep Ottilie at the estate and not send her away.

2. What motion does Ottilie make that distinctly translates her desires for the future?
(a) Seizing Eduard's and Charlotte's hands and bringing them together.
(b) Covering her face in her hands and dressing in a nun's black habit.
(c) Gesturing toward the cliff face and indicating she will jump off.
(d) Going to the Major and kneeling submissively before him.

3. Whose appearance do the painted decorations of the restored building seem to have?
(a) Ottilie's.
(b) Charlotte's.
(c) Nanni's.
(d) Luciane's.

4. What final decision does Eduard make at the end of Part I?
(a) To return to Charlotte.
(b) To rejoin the military.
(c) To commit suicide.
(d) To run away with Ottilie.

5. What event do the men resolve should mark the celebratory finishing date of their various improvements to the landscape of the estate?
(a) Charlotte and Eduard's anniversary.
(b) The death of Herr Mittler.
(c) The anniversary of the Captain's arrival at the estate.
(d) Ottilie's birthday.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Upon what, to Ottilie, does her future rest?

3. What, in general, describes Luciane's personality?

4. What are the conditions on which Charlotte offers herself to the Major?

5. What about the contract Ottilie copied does Eduard find singular and astonishing?

(see the answer key)

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