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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who visits Charlotte and decides to take her news back to Eduard?
(a) The architect.
(b) Herr Mittler.
(c) The Captain.
(d) The Count.

2. What incites Eduard to make a passionate visit to Charlotte?
(a) The idea that making love to Charlotte will cement his desire for her.
(b) The thought of Ottilie working on a project of Eduard's.
(c) The drunken dare of Eduard's male guest.
(d) The realization that he is not yet a father.

3. How do Eduard, Charlotte, and the captain speak of the concept of elective affinities?
(a) In terms of men, women, children, and animals.
(b) In terms of 1, 2, 3, and 4.
(c) In terms of A, B, C, and D.
(d) In terms of apples, oranges, bananas, and pears.

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

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

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

7. What event does the captain suggest must be celebrated in a special manner?
(a) Eduard's homecoming.
(b) Ottilie's debutante ball.
(c) The Captain's wedding.
(d) Charlotte's birthday.

8. What is the name of the first character introduced in the novel?
(a) Eduard.
(b) Ottilie.
(c) Charlotte.
(d) Gardener.

9. What does the male guest criticize about the estate?
(a) The general lack of aptitude of the servants.
(b) The mistress's planning and layout of the improvements.
(c) The master's indecent liberties taken with the serving-girls.
(d) The boring, humdrum nature of the surrounding area.

10. What do the main characters decide to do with the three lakes on Eduard's estate?
(a) Bring down the dams to make one large lake.
(b) Reinforce all three dams to prevent flooding.
(c) Drain one of the lakes to irrigate the fields.
(d) Sell the land rights around the largest lake.

11. How does Eduard view his previous feelings of love, before he loved Ottilie?
(a) As mere wastes of time.
(b) As practice for his future seduction of Ottilie.
(c) As the pinnacles of human feeling.
(d) As necessary endeavors.

12. What does Ottilie see as her "everything?"
(a) Her passion for gardening.
(b) Her love for Eduard.
(c) Her friendship with Charlotte.
(d) Her attention to her reading.

13. What does Ottilie set in the foundation stone with the other peoples' offerings?
(a) A ring her mother gave her.
(b) A lock of her own hair.
(c) A miniature portrait of her father.
(d) A letter from the schoolmaster.

14. What personality trait is notable about Ottilie?
(a) She talks rapidly and profusely about nothing of consequence.
(b) She is very energetic but cannot seem to finish any project.
(c) She is arrogant but somehow still likeable.
(d) She understands the needs of others intuitively.

15. What is one notable pet peeve of the master of the estate?
(a) When others hum off-key when working.
(b) When others read over his shoulder.
(c) When others talk during meals.
(d) When others do not sing well enough to suit him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What service does Ottilie volunteer to do for Eduard?

3. Where does Eduard live while away from his estate?

4. Who comes to visit the estate after the foundation stone ceremony?

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

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