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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What activity of Luciane's, meant to amuse the company, ends up with Luciane looking foolish?
(a) Her idea of a game that involves the whole company.
(b) Her dance performance in which she is accompanied by a harpist.
(c) Her performance on the guitar and her accompanying singing.
(d) Her arguments in a carefully staged debate.

2. Whom do Otto's facial features resemble?
(a) Eduard and the Captain.
(b) The Captain and Ottilie.
(c) Ottilie and Charlotte.
(d) Charlotte and Eduard.

3. What event marks the newborn's baptism with foreboding?
(a) The sudden death of the clergyman.
(b) The spilling of the holy water.
(c) The poor turnout for the event at the church.
(d) The awkward way Charlotte explains Eduard's absence.

4. What building does Charlotte decide she and Ottilie will live in for a period of time?
(a) The chapel.
(b) The pavilion.
(c) The moss hut.
(d) The servant's quarters.

5. Which unexpected visitor arrives during the performance of the artistic activity planned by the architect?
(a) The mason.
(b) The headmistress.
(c) The Captain.
(d) The schoolmaster.

6. What event precipitates the arrival of Charlotte's daughter at the estate?
(a) Luciane's engagement to a wealthy young man.
(b) The birth of Charlotte and Eduard's first child.
(c) Ottilie's death and her memorial services.
(d) Luciane has been kicked out of the boarding school.

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

8. Who "shudders in horror" at the tragedy and why?
(a) The Major because he sees his own likeness in the dead child.
(b) Eduard because he knows Ottilie may have died too.
(c) Ottilie because she feels she is at fault for the tragedy.
(d) Charlotte because she cannot even imagine the tragedy.

9. What mistake does Eduard make while leaving the note?
(a) He forgets that due to a change of plans, Ottilie will no longer arrive at that place.
(b) He neglects to sign it, so Ottilie will not know who wrote it.
(c) He accidentally locks himself in the room which Ottilie will be occupying.
(d) He accidentally leaves the note in the wrong room.

10. What is the premise of the story told by the foreign visitor?
(a) A young couple spends many happy days together, but on the eve of their wedding tragedy strikes both of them.
(b) Two young people who are incompatible as youths find themselves attracted to one another as they become adults.
(c) An elderly couple that gets pleasure by meddling in others' lives finds that it is prudent to mind one's own business.
(d) A young peasant feels he is destined to marry a fine lady, and he accomplishes seemingly impossible tasks in order to win her heart.

11. Under what condition does Ottilie feel she could forgive herself?
(a) If she replays the tragedy over in her head enough times to purge her guilt.
(b) If she considers the tragedy a blessing in disguise.
(c) If Charlotte and Eduard also forgive her.
(d) If she renounces her passion for Eduard completely.

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

13. Why does Ottilie avoid a path by the side of the lake?
(a) The path reminds her of her lost lover.
(b) The place fills her with dread and she gets a headache.
(c) She once fell from that path and hurt herself.
(d) She has been warned by the townsfolk that the path is cursed.

14. What seemingly miraculous event occurs during Ottilie's funeral?
(a) The Major saves a young woman from drowning.
(b) Nanni falls from a garret but is uninjured.
(c) Eduard tries to stab himself but the blade cannot pierce his skin.
(d) Charlotte learns she is pregnant again.

15. What event endangers the protagonists of the story?
(a) A carriage robbery.
(b) A blazing house fire.
(c) A river yacht crash.
(d) An attempted murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the general mood of the household when all four protagonists live there together again?

2. How does Eduard's part in the story end?

3. What is the general substance of Ottilie's first journal entry?

4. What thought about Ottilie's future preoccupies Charlotte?

5. What proposition does Eduard make to the Major?

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